Richard Isaacson

Richard Isaacson currently serves as Director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic, Weill Cornell Memory Disorders Program, and Director of the Neurology Residency Training Program at Weill Cornell Medical College/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Isaacson now specializes exclusively in Alzheimer’s disease risk reduction and treatment. His research focuses on nutrition and the implementation and longitudinal assessment of dietary interventions for AD management.

He is the author of two best-selling books geared for patients and caregivers, "Alzheimer’s Treatment Alzheimer’s Prevention: A Patient & Family Guide" and most recently, "The Alzheimer’s Prevention & Treatment Diet".

His recent efforts have focused on the development of Alzheimer's Universe (www.AlzU.org) a vast online educational portal on AD, with results published in the Journal of the Prevention of Alzheimer's disease. He has chaired the AAN Undergraduate Education Subcommittee working group in dementia and received the AAN Education Research Grant for “Evaluating the effectiveness of Continuum: Dementia as a teaching tool for medical students” published in Neurology.

He is the author of numerous publications, his research in neurology and medical education has been presented at scientific meetings nationally and internationally, and was awarded the 2009 AAN A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award. He is also a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.