Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center

Faculty:

David Bennett, MD, Director
Ilene Milgram, MS, Administrator

Neurology:
   Neelum Aggarwal, M.D.
   Zoe Arvanitakis, M.D.
   David A. Bennett, M.D.
   Aron S. Buchman, M.D.
   Julie Schneider, M.D.

Behavioral Sciences:
   Lisa L. Barnes, Ph.D
   Patricia Boyle, Ph.D
   Debra Fleischman, Ph.D
   Kristin Krueger, Ph.D
   Robert S. Wilson Ph.D

Family Medicine (Geriatrician):
    Raj Shah, M.D.
   Medical Director

Internal Medicine (Geriatrician):
   Jeremiah F. Kelly, M.D.

Nurse Practitioners (Geriatrics):
   Danielle Arends, APN
   Anna Treinkman, APN

Pathology (Neuropathologist):
   Julie A. Schneider, M.D.

Psychiatry:
   Benedict Gierl, M.D.

The Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) is a free-standing multidisciplinary clinical and research center at Rush University Medical Center. Directed by David Bennett, MD, the center has faculty with primary appointments in several different departments in the Medical College. Funding for the center comes primarily from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The RADC is one of 29 federally funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s (http://www.nia.nih.gov/) and has numerous other NIA grants. The RADC is also one of three State of Illinois funded Alzheimer’s Disease Centers. The Mission of the RADC is to reduce disability due to Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related conditions through research on the treatment and prevention of disease for this and future generations.

Participation by students, residents and fellows is encouraged in the center’s clinical care, education, and research projects. Ongoing studies include the Religious Order Study, a longitudinal clinical pathologic study of aging and dementia on more than 1,100 older nuns, priests and brothers in nine states who have agreed to annual evaluation, and brain donation after death; the Rush Memory and Aging Project, a longitudinal clinical pathologic study of aging and dementia on more than 1,200 older persons who have agreed to annual evaluation, and donation of brain, spinal cord, nerve and muscle after death; and the Minority Aging Research Study, a study of risk factors for cognitive decline with more than 350 older African Americans. The center is also conducting genetics, biomarker and neuroimaging studies, in addition to numerous clinical trials.