James B Leverenz, MD

• 神经内科/神经病学
• 神经退行性病变
• 帕金森病
• 临床神经科学
• 帕金森综合征
• Cohort

Dr. Leverenz (“jim”) obtained his undergraduate degrees in Biology and Psychology and Medical degree at the University of Washington. He trained in Neurology at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (now part of the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center). He subsequently completed a neuropathology fellowship at the University of Chicago. After training he moved to Seattle and joined the University of Washington and VA Puget Sound Health Care System departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, eventually becoming a Professor in both departments.
He moved the the Cleveland Clinic in 2014 to direct the Cleveland site of the Center for Brain Health (a clinical and research program at the Cleveland Clinic) and now also directs the Cleveland Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (P30 AG072959) with a focus on Lewy body dementia, atypical Alzheimer’s disease and diversity and aging. He is the contact PI for the “Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium” (U01NS100610) and MPI on “Alzheimer’s MultiOme Data Repurposing: Artificial Intelligence, Network Medicine, and Therapeutics Discovery (U01AG073323).