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Brad Dickerson, MD

- Director of MGH FTD Unit
- Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
- Boston, Massachusetts
Brad Dickerson, MD, is a behavioral neurologist and neuroscientist dedicated to the sophisticated, compassionate, and multidisciplinary care of patients with neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal Dementia. He is the Tommy Rickles Endowed Chair in Progressive Aphasia Research, Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Leader of the Neuroimaging Core of the MGH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Dickerson runs a multidisciplinary team of 30 clinicians and scientists using advanced brain imaging and behavioral methods to study how memory, language, emotion, and social behaviors change in normal aging and in patients with neurodegenerative disease. His team also studies new approaches to caregiving. He has published more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has edited two books on dementia. He is active in mentoring trainees and in teaching, is Chair of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Association and is Chair of the national Medical Advisory Council of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. He has won several awards, including the American Academy of Neurology’s Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology.