Month April 2010

Professor Bengt Winblad, MD, PhD has been involved in the field of dementia research for many years. He became MD 1971 and took his PhD in 1975 at the University of Umeå, Sweden, where he became a Docent in 1977…

Dr Philip Scheltens studied at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, gaining his MD in 1984, and PhD (magnetic resonance imaging in Alzheimer’s disease) in 1993. Clinical residencies in neurosurgery at the Municipal Hospital Slotervaart, and at the Vrije Universiteit Medical…

Specialist in Clinical Neurology and Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Jesús de Pedro Cuesta holds Spanish and Swedish citizenship and a Spanish and Swedish board-certificates in neurology. He was formally trained at the Karolinska Institute in social medicine and obtained…

Martin Knapp is Professor of Social Policy and Co-Director of LSE Health and Social Care at the London School of Economics. He is also Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health at…

Professor John Hardy is a geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease. Dr. Hardy received his B.Sc. (Hons) degree from the University of Leeds, UK (1976) and his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London, UK where he…

SAB Chairperson. Thomas Gasser is a Professor of Neurology and Director of the Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Center…

Bruno Dubois is currently Professor of Neurology at the Neurological Institute of the Salpétrière University Hospital at Paris, University Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6. He is Director of the Behavioural Neurology Department and of the Dementia Research Center at…

Stefano F. Cappa received his M.D. at the University of Milano, in which he completed his neurology training. He has held assistant professor and associate professor positions in Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation at the University of Brescia. Since 1999 he…