Reviews Write New Review
Location
Booking Fee
Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
Virtual Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
[email protected]
Michael Rafii
Professor, Medical Director, Alzheimer's & Down Syndrome Researcher
Michael Rafii is the Medical Director of the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute and Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Rafii leads a team comprised of physician medical monitors, clinical monitors, and medical safety specialists to provide safety oversight to all ongoing clinical trials. He is also a physician-scientist whose own research program focuses on understanding the genetic form of Alzheimer's disease that occurs in persons with Down syndrome.
He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium - Down Syndrome (ACTC-DS). He is also the editor of the textbook "Common Pathogenic Mechanisms between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease: Steps toward Therapy" and serves as a scientific reviewer for the NIH and the Alzheimer's Association. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio (NPR).
Previously, Dr. Rafii served as Medical Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, Founding Director of the Adult Down Syndrome Clinic, Director of the Comprehensive Alzheimer’s Program, and Director of the Adult Neurology Residency Training program at the University of California, San Diego.
He received his MD and PhD degrees from Brown University and conducted neurogenetics research at Harvard Medical School. He completed his Neurology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and fellowship in Neurodegenerative diseases at the University of California, San Diego.
Videos
Related Speakers View all
Troy Townsend Rohn
Professor, Neuroscientist & Director of Preclinical ...
|
|
Peter Bulova
Down Syndrome Speaker & Researcher; Associate Profes...
|
|
Robert P. Friedland MD
Clinical & Research Neurologist; Expert in Brain Dis...
|
|
Marie Bernard
Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging a...
|
|
Linda Partridge
Director, UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing; Foundin...
|
|
Richard Isaacson
Director of Research, Parkinson's & Alzheimer's Rese...
|
|
Kishore Vellody
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director ...
|
|
Yvonne van Amerongen
Founder of The Hogewey Dementia Village & Retired Se...
|
|
Ray Dorsey
Professor of Neurology: Director of the CHET at the ...
|
|
Rudolph E. Tanzi
Alzheimer's Disease Researcher; Professor of Neurolo...
|
|
Rahul Jandial
Brain Surgeon, Neuroscientist, Bestselling Author
|
|
Dr. John DenBoer
Clinical Neuropsychologist, Expert Speaker in Alzhei...
|
|
Kafui Dzirasa
Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiolog...
|
|
Nelson Dellis
Founder, CEO of Climb For Memory; Five-Time USA Memo...
|
|
Lori La Bey
Founder of Alzheimer's Speaks & Co-Founder of Dement...
|
|
Neelum T. Aggarwal, MD
Neurologist, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
|
|
John Mazziotta
CEO UCLA Health, Vice Chancellor of UCLA Health Scie...
|
|
Rhoda Au
Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology at Boston Univer...
|
|
Bruce Greyson
Chester Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and...
|
|
Roberta Brinton
Director, Center for Innovation in Brain Science
|