Dr. Ranjan Duara is the Medical Director of the Wien Center for Alzheimer’s
Disease and Memory Disorders at Mount Sinai Medical Center and holds the Denis
C. Cole Family Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research. In addition, he serves as
the Associate Director and leader of the Clinical Core of the 1Florida
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, a research collaboration between four
university medical centers and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Florida. He is
also a Courtesy Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of
Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, and the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,
Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He completed his
undergraduate medical education at Christian Medical College, India, completed
two years of neurology residency at Grant Medical College in Bombay, India,
followed by residencies in internal medicine and neurology in the UK, and in
neurology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He then
completed a four-year fellowship in neuroscience and neuroimaging of aging at
the National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD).
Dr. Duara’s research has focused primarily on early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
disease and other dementias, neuroimaging, genetic epidemiology, and the
methodology for staging the transition from normal cognitive aging to dementia.
He has contributed to more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed scientific
journals.
