During
its March 2006 meeting, the Virginia Alzheimer's
Disease and Related Disorders Commission elected
Dr. Russell H Swerdlow as its new Chair.
Dr. Russell
Swerdlow received his undergraduate and doctor
of medicine degrees from New York University in
New York City. He completed a medical
internship and neurology residency at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville,
Virginia. This was followed by a Geriatric
Neuropsychiatry clinical fellowship and a basic
science research fellowship in Neurodegenerative
Diseases (both at the University of Virginia).
Dr. Swerdlow is
currently an associate professor of neurology at
the University of Virginia, where he attends and
also directs dementia treatment trials at the
neurology department’s Memory Disorders Clinic.
He further runs a federally funded basic science
laboratory that studies the role of
mitochondrial pathology in aging and
neurodegenerative diseases. Dr Swerdlow is a
past recipient of the S. Weir Mitchell Award
from the American Academy of Neurology and a
Cotzias Fellowship from the American Parkinson’s
Disease Association. He currently serves on the
Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders
Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is
the on the Board of Directors and the Research
Committee Chair of the Society for Progressive
Supranuclear Palsy, directs the Commonwealth of
Virginia’s Telemedicine Memory Disorders Clinic,
directs the Medical Student Summer Research
Program at the University of Virginia, and is a
permanent member of both NIH and Veteran’s
Administration neurodegeneration research study
sections.
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