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BIOGRAPHY   Stephen Salloway, MD, MS Chair, Track III: Neurology Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry Brown Medical School Director of Neurology and The Memory Disorders Program Butler Hospital Providence, Rhode Island Stephen Salloway MD, MS, is Director of Neurology and The Memory Disorders Program at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and Psychiatry at Brown Medical School. He received his MD from Stanford Medical School and completed residencies in neurology and psychiatry at Yale University. Dr Salloway has published more than 160 scientific articles, book chapters, and abstracts and has edited 3 books. His research focuses on: a) clinical trials for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, and vascular dementia b) studies of genetic and sporadic forms of microvascular brain disease c) studies of executive function and frontal behaviors, and d) the development of imaging biomarkers to study conversion to dementia. Dr Salloway has received numerous grants for his research from the National Institute of Health and private foundations. Dr Salloway recently published the first controlled clinical trials of cholinesterase inhibitors for the treatment of MCI and vascular dementia. Under his direction, the Butler Memory and Aging Program has become a nationally recognized clinical research center testing new disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease including amyloid vaccines, secreatase and gonadotrophin modulators, and studies of insulin resistance. His program has also become a key research center in the United States for the study of CADASIL, a genetic disorder causing stroke and vascular dementia. Dr Salloway is the past President of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of the American Neurological Association. He is a scientific reviewer for the National Institutes of Health and for more than 25 journals, universities, and research foundations. Dr Salloway is the Director of the Brown Combined Residency in Neurology and Psychiatry and Co-Principal Investigator of the NIA-sponsored Brown Dementia Research Fellowship Program. Dr Salloway lectures widely on dementia and neuropsychiatric disorders.