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BIOGRAPHY

  Gary W. Small, MD
Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Gary W. Small, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is also an Attending Psychiatrist at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. In addition, Dr Small is Founding Director of the UCLA Memory Clinic. He is also Director of the Memory and Aging Research Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Director of the Imaging and Genetics Core at the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and Director of the UCLA Center on Aging.

Dr Small earned his medical degree at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He served as an intern in internal medicine at the Children's Hospital and Adult Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He then completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was appointed Chief Resident of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service, and completed a clinical fellowship in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. Dr Small then became a fellow in geriatric psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr Small is the recipient of numerous awards and honors; he is listed in America's Top Doctors, and Best Doctors in America. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world's top 50 innovators in science and technology. He has been an investigator or principal investigator on more than 40 research projects on dementia and Alzheimer's disease and psychiatric illnesses in the elderly. Dr Small serves on the editorial boards of several journals, newsletters, and educational programs including the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders and Geriatric Times. He is a reviewer for numerous publications including Neurology, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr Small has authored and co-authored more than 400 journal articles, book reviews, letters, editorials, books, book chapters, and abstracts on dementia-related topics. Dr Small is a member of professional organizations including the American College of Psychiatrists, American College of Neuropsycho-pharmacology, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and American Psychiatric Association (fellow). His latest bestselling book, The Memory Bible, a comprehensive guide to maintaining memory performance and brain health, has received wide critical praise.