About us
Gary Small, M.D., is Director of the UCLA Memory & Aging Center, as well as Professor of Psychiatry and Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Small’s research group has developed brain scanning methods that detect the first signs of brain aging and age-related memory loss years before patients show symptoms that indicate severe forms of cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer’s disease. In 2002, Scientific American magazine named Dr. Small one of the world’s top innovators in science and technology.
Other key staff members include:
- Andrea Kaplan, Project Co-ordinator
- Deborah Dorsey, Chief Research Nurse
- Karen Miller, Ph.D., Director of Neuropsychological Training
- Linda Ercoli, Ph.D., Director of Geriatric Psychology
