Richard Isaacson Biography

Dr. Richard S. Isaacson is currently the Director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic and the Neurology Residency Training Program at Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He previously served as the Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Vice Chair of Education, and Education Director of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Isaacson completed his residency in Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and his medical internship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, FL. Before joining UM, he worked as the Associate Medical Director of the Wien Center for Alzheimer's disease and Memory Disorders at Mount Sinai. Dr. Isaacson specializes exclusively in Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk reduction and treatment, mild cognitive impairment due to AD, and pre-clinical AD. He has a family history of AD and believes in a comprehensive, multi-modal approach to AD treatment and prevention. Dr. Isaacson's research in AD focuses on nutrition and the implementation and longitudinal assessment of dietary interventions for AD management. He is the author of two best-selling books, "Alzheimer's Treatment Alzheimer's Prevention: A Patient & Family Guide" (2012 Edition) and "The Alzheimer's Diet: A Step-by-Step Nutritional Approach for Memory Loss Prevention & Treatment." Dr. Isaacson has a distinguished career in education that spans undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education, as well as the patient, caregiver, and community education/outreach. He recently led a collaborative education and health information technology research initiative at Weill Cornell, Harvard, UM, U. Pennsylvania, and U. Rochester published in Neurology. Dr. Isaacson's research in neurology and medical education has been presented at scientific meetings nationally and internationally, and he was awarded the 2009 AAN A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award. In addition, he is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. His recent efforts have focused on developing Alzheimer's Universe (www.AlzU.org), a vast online educational portal on AD.

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