David M. Holtzman, MD

Dr. Holtzman attended the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University receiving his BS and MD. He did medical internship followed by Neurology residency at UCSF. He then did post-doctoral research training in the lab of William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, at UCSF.

At UCSF, he also established the Memory and Cognitive Disorders Clinic and was an Assistant Professor. He moved to his own laboratory at Washington University.

In addition to his laboratory, administrative, and teaching duties, Dr. Holtzman is involved in clinical and research activities at the Washington University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Past honors include being the recipient of a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar Award in Aging Research, the 2003 Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology for research on Alzheimer's, election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2004), receiving a MERIT award from the NIA (2004), a 2006 recipient of the MetLife award on Alzheimer's disease, election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008, and an alumni merit award, Northwestern University School of Medicine, 2010.