Walter A. Kukull, PhD

Dr. Kukull's research is focused on the neurodegenerative, vascular and other conditions causing dementia and cognitive impairment. These conditions include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's/Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and cerebrovascular disease. Since 1999, he has served as Director and PI of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center [U24 AG072122], an effort to collect and make available to researchers standardized, detailed clinical data from the approximately 37 NIA-funded Alzheimer Disease Centers across the United States. Dr. Kukull works closely with the leadership of the ADRCs and the National Institute on Aging to ensure that scientifically relevant and valid data are obtained and available from NACC’s database to any researcher anywhere.

In addition to NACC work, he is an investigator with a number of other NIH grants. He is an elected Fellow of: American College of Epidemiology, American Academy of Neurology and American Association for Advancement of Science.