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Associate Professor In-Residence

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Primary Location

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

In-Person office hours 2-6pm daily

About

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. 

Dr. Vossel received a master’s degree in biomedical engineering and medical degree with highest honors from the University of Tennessee. He completed 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. 

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 Epilepsy Comorbidities 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