Douglas R. Galasko, M.D. Director of the Shiley-Marcos ADRC. Professor In Residence, Department of  Neurosciences.   Joined the ADRC in 1987.  Medical Degree: 1979 Johannesburg General Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.  Field of interest: Clinical research pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease and neurological problems associated with aging.

 

Edward H. Koo, M.D. Professor, Department of Neurosciences; Associate Director of the ADRC. Joined the ADRC in 1996. Medical Degree: 1980 Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.  Completed Neurology residency at University of California, San Francisco.  Field of Interest: Cell and molecular biology of AD and neurodegeneration, mechanisms of neuronal and synaptic damage, and translation medicine in AD therapeutics.

 

Jody Corey-Bloom M.D., Ph.D. Clinical Professor, Department of Neurosciences.  Joined the ADRC in 1990.  Medical Degree: 1986 UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA.  Field of Interest: clinical research pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease and neurological disorders in the elderly.

 

 

James B. Brewer, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurosciences.  Joined the ADRC in 2004.  Medical Degree:  Stanford University and his neurology residency training at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Department of Neurosciences in 2004, in a joint recruitment of the Departments of Neurosciences and Radiology, and is a leading investigator at the interdisciplinary Multimodal Imaging Laboratory. Field of interest:  Structural and functional brain changes in early Alzheimer’s disease.

 

Adam Fleisher, M.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosciences.  Medical Director, Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study.  Field of Interest: Clinical trials and functional imaging of cognitive disorders.  Joined the ADRC in 2002. Medical Degree: 1998 University of Rochester, NY and completed his Neurology Residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, M.D. 

 

Michael Rafii , M.D., Ph.D. Fellow, Department of Neurosciences. Field of Interest: Memory and Aging, Clinical Trials and Neuroimaging of Cognitive Disorders. Joined the ADRC in 2006. Medical Degree: Brown University School of Medicine and completed his Neurology Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

 

 

A. Dean Sherzai, M.D. Joined the ADRC in 2005. Medical Degree: E. Virginia Medical School. He did his Residency at Georgetown University and his fellowship in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Experimental Therapeutics at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He is here at UCSD doing a fellowship in Dementia.

 

Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D.  Professor of Neurosciences.  Joined the ADRC in 1991.   Medical Degree: 1983 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.  Field of Interest: trophic factor effects on neurons in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, clinical trials of cholinergic agonists in Alzheimer’s disease, gene therapy, nervous system growth factors, and spinal cord injury.

 

John Daly, M.D. Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Director of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UCSD. He is also the Consultant Geriatrician to the Senior Behavioral Medicine inpatient unit at UCSD Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, CA. Medical Degree: University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM. Field of Interest: Rheumatology and Geriatrics with a specialization in dementia care. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Daly conducts research and teaches medical students. He is also a UCSD SOCARE (Seniors Only Care) physician.

 

Robert Katzman, M.D.  Professor Emeritus in Neurosciences, Founder of the ADRC in 1984.  Medical Degree: 1953 Harvard Medical School.  Field of Interest: epidemiology.

 

 

Michael Grundman, M.D., M.P.H. Associate Professor Department of Neurosciences. Field of Interest: Design and conduct of clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Joined the ADRC in 1993. Medical Degree: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.