Neurology Staff

Douglas R. Galasko, M.D., 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.

Jim Brewer, M.D. Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurosciences.  Joined the ADRC in 2004.  Medical Degree:  Stanford University.  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 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. 

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 Rafii, M.D., Ph.D.

A. Dean Sherzai, M.D.

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.