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Jennifer Fulcher, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

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Primary Location

UCLA Simulation Center
700 Westwood Plaza
Room 1218
Los Angeles, CA 90095

In-Person office hours Mondays and Wednesdays 12pm-4pm

About

Dr. Keith Vossel is the Michael M. Minchin, Jr., President, J.D. French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor of Neurology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He leads a comprehensive Center incorporating outreach and engagement to diverse communities, electronic health records, social determinants of health, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genetics, preclinical and clinical trials, and clinical care to develop new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and achieve equity in recognition and care of dementia.

Education and Degree(s)

  • B.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,TN
  • M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN, and University of Memphis, TN
  • M.D., University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN (Highest Honors)
  • Internship, Medicine, Harvard Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Publications

Falgàs N, Walsh CW, Yack L, Simon AJ, Kramer JH, Rosen H, Rabinovici G, Miller B, Spina S, Seeley WW, Ranasinghe K, Vossel K, Neylan TC, Grinberg LT. Alzheimer's Disease phenotypes show different sleep architecture. Alzheimer’s and Dementia 2023 Feb 7. doi: 10.1002/alz.12963.

Hwang K, Vaknalli R, Addo-Osafo K, Vicente M, Vossel K. Tauopathy and EpilepsyvComorbidities and Underlying Mechanisms. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2022, 14:903973. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.903973. PMCID: PMC9340804

Ranasinghe KG, Verma P, Cai C, Xie X, Kudo K, Gao X, Lerner H, Mizuiri D, Strom A, Iaccarino L, La Joie R, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rankin KP, Jagust WJ, Vossel K, Rabinovici GD, Raj A, Nagarajan SS. Altered excitatory and inhibitory neuronal subpopulation parameters are distinctly associated with tau and

amyloid in Alzheimer’s disease. ELife 2022, 11:e77850. doi: 10.7554/eLife.77850. PMCID: PMC9217132

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Outstanding Health Care Innovator, Los Angeles Business Journal
  • 2011
    • Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award in Aging Research (K23), NIH/NIA, American Federation for Aging Research, and John A. Hartford Foundation
    • Distinguished Research Scholar Award, John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation
  • 2010
    • Alzheimer’s Association Award for Excellence in Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders