Neelum Aggarwal, MD

Neelum Aggarwal, MD, is currently the Clinical Core Leader for the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Director of the Clinical Trial Section at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Sciences at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

She earned her doctorate in Medicine from the Chicago Medical School in 1992 and completed her internship and Neurology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. During her residency, she was awarded a international externship at the Klinkum Grosshadern, Munich Germany, to work in the neurosurgical vascular lab of Professor Alexander Baethman. Following her residency she completed a two-year fellowship in aging and dementia at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center and was board certified in neurology in 1998. 

She is the senior neurologist for the NIA-funded Chicago Health and Aging project (CHAP), the Minority Aging Research Study (MARS), and also was the examining neurologist for the Religious Order Study (ROS) and the Memory and Aging Project (MAP). She has lectured nationally and internationally, and her primary research interests are related to cognitive changes in minority populations, with specific emphasis on how vascular disease and neuroimaging  relate to cognitive functioning and Alzheimer’s disease in minority populations.

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