Early-Onset Familial AD: U.S. Clinic Directory
If you suspect early-onset Alzheimer disease in a loved one and wish to seek medical care, or if you are a physician and suspect early-onset familial Alzheimer disease (eFAD) in a patient, you may want to consider consulting specialists. The Alzforum editors invite providers across the world who specialize in eFAD to contact us and add their institution to this list.
Updated 14 October 2008
Important Notice: We do not make a claim to being comprehensive or up to date. The inclusion of an organization in our index does not imply endorsement of the organization's policies or products by the Alzheimer Research Forum.
NOTE: these are just the clinics in the U.S. Please go to the Alzheimer Research Forum page to search for early-onset familial AD clinics in other countries.
In the United States, 31 federally funded AD Research Centers across the country have varying levels of expertise on early-onset AD, but all are good places to start obtaining a diagnosis. For a complete listing, see the ADEAR Research Center Directory. For additional centers with EOAD expertise, see below:
University of California, San Diego
Perlman Neurology Outpatient Clinic
LA JOLLA, CA 92037
Contacts: Douglas Galasko, M.D., Adam Fleisher, M.D., Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D.
Phone: 858-657-8540
Website: http://adrc.ucsd.edu/
UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center
10911 Weyburn Ave., 2nd Floor
LOS ANGELES, CA 90095-7226
Contact: John Ringman, M.D.
Phone: 310-794-3231
Fax: 310-794-3148
Website: http://www.adc.ucla.edu
University of Southern California Memory and Aging Center
USC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
1510 San Pablo St., HCC 600
LOS ANGELES, CA 90033
Contact: Nadine Diaz, MSW
Contact: John Danner, MSW
Phone: 323-442-7600
Fax: 323-442-7601
Website: http://www.usc.edu/memory
University of California, Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center
University of California, Davis Medical Center
4860 Y Street, Suite 3700
SACRAMENTO, CA 95817-4540
Contact: Rebekha Alfaro
Phone: 916-734-5496
Fax: 916-734-6525
Website: http://alzheimer.ucdavis.edu
UCSF Memory & Aging Center
350 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 706
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94143-1207
New Patient Coordinator: Shirley Reeder
Phone: 415-476-6880
Website: http://memory.ucsf.edu
Stanford Center for Memory Disorders
300 Pasteur Drive Third Floor, Room A301, Boswell Building
STANFORD, CA 94305
Phone:(650) 723-6469
http://scmd.stanford.edu/
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Memory Disorders Program
WASHINGTON, DC
Contact: Paul Aisen
Phone: 202-687-7337
Website: http://memory.georgetown.edu/staff.html
Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute
4001 E Fletcher Avenue
TAMPA, FL 33613
Contacts: Huntington Potter, Ph.D.
Lilly Ho Pehling
Phone: 813-866-1600
Fax: 813-866-1601
Website: http://www.byrdinstitute.org/
Mayo Clinic Memory Disorders Clinic
JACKSONVILLE, FL
Contacts: Francine Parfitt, Neill Graff-Radford
Phone: 904-953-0853
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.org/memory-disorders-clinic-jax/
Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Department of Neurology
Emory University
1841 Clifton Rd, 3rd Floor
ATLANTA, GA 30329
Contact: Ami Rosen, MS, CGC
Phone: 404-728-4956
Fax: 404-728-6685
Website: http://med.emory.edu/ADRC/
Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
320 E. Superior, #11-453B
CHICAGO, IL 60611
Contact: M.-Marsel Mesulam, M.D.
Phone: 312-695-9627
Website: http://www.brain.northwestern.edu
Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center
541 Clinical Drive, Room 291
INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46202
Contact: Christina Brown, BS
Phone: 317-278-3968
http://iadc.iupui.edu/
Houlton Regional Hospital
Specialty Clinics, Neurology
20 Hartford Street
HOULTON, ME 04730
Contact: Peter Morin
Phone: 207-532-2900
Fax 207-532-4755
Website: http://houlton.net/hrh/hrhsc.htm
Frontotemporal Dementia and Young-Onset Dementia Clinic
Johns Hopkins Hospital
550 North Broadway, Suite 308
BALTIMORE, MD 21287
Contact: Brian Appleby
Phone: 410-502-2981
Website: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Psychiatry/geriatric_neuropsych/
FTD_Clinic.html
Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center
Boston University School of Medicine
715 Albany Street, B-7800
BOSTON, MA 02118
Contact: Anil Nair, M.D.
Phone: 617-414-1195
Fax: 617-414-1197
Website: http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch
Memory Diagnostic Clinic
ENRM Bedford Veterans Administration Medical Center
200 Springs Road
BEDFORD, MA 01730
Contact: Chris Jagiello, LICSW
Phone: 781-687-2701
Website: http://www.bu.edu/alzresearch/care/bedford/memoryclinic.html
Memory Disorders Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
114 16th Street, Room 2009
CHARLESTOWN, MA 02129
Contact: Bradley T. Hyman, M.D., Ph.D.
Phone: 617-726-1728
Website: http://madrc.org
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
55 Lake Avenue North
WORCESTER, MA 01655
Contact: Daniel Pollen, M.D.
Phone: 508-426-0893
Website: http://www.umassmed.edu/index.aspx
Washington University School of Medicine Familial Adult Children Study
4488 Forest Park Avenue, Suite 101
St. Louis, MO 63108
Contact: Randall Bateman, M.D.
Phone: 314-747-7066
Website: http://alzheimer.wustl.edu
Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders
MANHASSET, Long Island, NY
Contact: Erica Christen, BS RN,
Director of Core Programs
Phone: 516-487-3492
Website: http://www.northshorelij.com/body.cfm?id=7202&oTopID=7202&PLinkID=6797
Sergievsky Center
Columbia University
630 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Contact: Jill Goldman, MS, MPhil, CGC
Phone: 212-305-7382
Website: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sergievsky/
Aging & Alzheimer's Clinic
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
PORTLAND, OR 97239-3098
Contact: Joan Benedict
Phone: 503-494-6695
Website: http://www.ohsu.edu/index.shtml
Memory Assessment Clinic
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road
PORTLAND, OR 97239-3098
Contact: Joan Benedict
Phone: 503-494-6695
Website: http://www.ohsu.edu/index.shtml
University of Pittsburgh
Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
3471 Fifth Avenue, Suite 811
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Contact: Steven T. DeKosky, MD
c/o Barbara Martin
Phone: 412-692-4622
Fax: 412-692-4526
Website: http://www.adrc.pitt.edu
University of Utah School of Medicine Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research
Outpatient Clinic
729 Arapeen Drive
Research Park
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84108
Phone: 801-585-6387
Contact: Norman Foster
Contact: Edward Zamrini, M.D.
Website: http://uuhsc.utah.edu/cacir/
Website: http://brain.utah.edu/feature/foster.html
Alzheimer's Disease Center/Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System
Mental Health Services, S-116
1660 South Columbian Way
SEATTLE, WA 98108
Contact: Kirsten Rohde, RN
Phone: 206-764-2713/800-329-8387, ext. 62713
Contact: Beth Hutchings, P.A.-C.
Phone: 206-764-2069/800-317-5382
Website: http://www.uwadrc.org