Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD, FANA
May Clinic Rochester
Ronald C. Petersen, MD, PhD, FANA, completed his PhD from the University of Minnesota and MD from Mayo Medical School. He completed an internship at Stanford University, residency in neurology at Mayo Clinic and a fellowship in behavioral neurology at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He became a professor of neurology at Mayo in 1996, and in 2000 he was named the Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2011. He is currently the Emeritus Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Director of the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging. He received the 2004 MetLife Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and the 2005 Potamkin Prize for Research in Picks, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders of the American Academy of Neurology. In 2011, he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Research, Care and Services for the National Alzheimer’s Disease Plan, and in 2014, he was appointed to the World Dementia Council by the UK government. He has authored over 1,500 papers on memory disorders, aging and Alzheimer’s disease.