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Dr. Mayeux named Chair of Neurology and Neurologist-in-Chief
Dr. Richard Mayeux succeeded Dr. Timothy A. Pedley as Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Columbia University and Neurologist-in-Chief at Columbia University Medical Center, effective March 1, 2011. Dr. Mayeux is currently the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology at Columbia, and serves as Director of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center for Neuroepidemiology and Genetics and Co-Director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain.
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Dr. Mayeux's research focuses on Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias. Since 1989, he has led a multidisciplinary, population-based, epidemiologic investigation of AD and related conditions known as the Washington Heights–Inwood Community Aging Project. Spanning more than 20 years, this study has provided data on the rates and risk factors for AD among the elderly in African American and Caribbean Hispanic populations.
Dr. Mayeux has received the 2007 Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology, the Leadership and Excellence in Alzheimer's Disease Award from the National Institute of Aging, the John Stearns Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medicine from the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer's Disease Research from the Alzheimer's Association.
Former Chair Dr. Pedley, an internationally recognized authority on epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology and founder of Columbia's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, stepped down when he became President-Elect of the American Academy of Neurology. In addition to his work at the Academy, Dr. Pedley will continue to have administrative responsibilities in the Department and also will play an increased role in the Epilepsy Center. Dr. Pedley is Past President of the American Neurological Association, the American Epilepsy Society, and the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the …
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