Keith Vossel, MD

Dr. Keith Vossel is a Professor of Neurology, Director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Research and Care at UCLA, and Michael M. Minchin, Jr., President, J.D. French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Chair. Dr. Vossel received a master's degree in biomedical engineering and a medical degree with the highest honors from the University of Tennessee. He completed a neurology residency at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he served as a chief resident. Dr. Vossel completed fellowship training in behavioral neurology and dementia research at the University of California, San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes. Dr. Vossel investigates Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and related disorders with a focus on brain rhythm abnormalities and translational therapies. Key discoveries include the presence of epileptic activity, occurring during sleep and accelerating cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease, effects of amyloid-β and tau deposition on brain rhythms and related cognitive impairments in Alzheimer's disease, and novel pathological functions of tau in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.