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Most active experts in Alzheimer's / Dementia

2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026

353 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Alzheimer's / Dementia. The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.

Most registered trials

Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 117 of the 353 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.

#Experttrials
1Randall BatemanWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO11 trials
2Adam BoxerUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA9 trials
3Davangere DevanandColumbia University Medical Center, NY9 trials
4David RussellPerceptive, CT8 trials
5Jeffrey BurnsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS8 trials
6Bradley BoeveMayo Clinic, MN7 trials
7Howard FeldmanCT6 trials
8Paul NewhouseVanderbilt University Medical Center, TN6 trials
9Gregory JichaUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine, KY6 trials
10Sanjeev KumarKS5 trials
11Douglas ScharreThe Ohio State University, OH5 trials
12Constantine LyketsosJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD5 trials
13Michael RafiiKeck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), CA5 trials
14Alvaro Pascual-LeoneMA4 trials
15Robert GreenMA4 trials
16Jiong ShiNV4 trials
17Fernando PaganMedStar Georgetown University Hospital, DC4 trials
18John RingmanKeck School of Medicine of USC, CA4 trials
19Michael BenatarUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL4 trials
20James LahEmory University, GA4 trials
21Russell SwerdlowUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine, KS4 trials
22William KreislColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY4 trials
23Brent ForesterTufts Medical Center, MA4 trials
24Joe VergheseRenaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, NY4 trials
25Helen LavretskyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA4 trials

Most cited

Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 43 of the 353 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.

#Expertcitations
1Bruce MillerUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA193,078 citations
2Bradley BoeveMayo Clinic, MN131,039 citations
3Richard MayeuxColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY118,786 citations
4Steven GreenbergMassachusetts General Hospital, MA85,334 citations
5Constantine LyketsosJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD62,187 citations
6Keith JohnsonMassachusetts General Hospital, MA60,230 citations
7Keith JosephsMayo Clinic, MN57,799 citations
8Lawrence HonigColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY54,826 citations
9Randall BatemanWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO54,140 citations
10Gregory JichaUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine, KY47,999 citations
11James LahEmory University, GA42,363 citations
12Russell SwerdlowUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine, KS40,617 citations
13Adam BoxerUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA39,144 citations
14Pierre TariotBanner Alzheimer's Institute, AZ37,941 citations
15Eric SiemersAcumen Pharmaceuticals, IN37,549 citations
16John RingmanKeck School of Medicine of USC, CA35,819 citations
17Jeffrey BurnsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS32,650 citations
18Joe VergheseRenaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, NY31,578 citations
19Horacio KaufmannNYU Grossman School of Medicine, NY30,903 citations
20Andrew BudsonBoston University, MA30,394 citations
21Marwan SabbaghBarrow Neurological Institute, AZ25,425 citations
22Eric McDadeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO22,402 citations
23Alan LernerCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH22,390 citations
24Helen LavretskyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA16,094 citations
25Douglas ScharreThe Ohio State University, OH15,652 citations

Most NIH awards

NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 49 of the 353 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.

#Expertawards
1Richard MayeuxColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY32 awards
2Mark TuszynskiCA28 awards
3Randall BatemanWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO20 awards
4Steven GreenbergMassachusetts General Hospital, MA20 awards
5Joe VergheseRenaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, NY19 awards
6Cecilia ShikumaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI16 awards
7Jeffrey BurnsUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, KS16 awards
8Davangere DevanandColumbia University Medical Center, NY16 awards
9Alvaro Pascual-LeoneMA14 awards
10Robert GreenMA14 awards
11Bruce MillerUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA14 awards
12Joseph QuinnOR13 awards
13James BennettVA12 awards
14Keith JosephsMayo Clinic, MN12 awards
15John RingmanKeck School of Medicine of USC, CA11 awards
16Keith JohnsonMassachusetts General Hospital, MA11 awards
17Michael BenatarUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL10 awards
18Constantine LyketsosJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD10 awards
19Gregory JichaUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine, KY10 awards
20Helen LavretskyUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA10 awards
21Adam BoxerUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA9 awards
22Douglas ZatzickUniversity of Washington School of Medicine, WA9 awards
23Russell SwerdlowUniversity of Kansas School of Medicine, KS9 awards
24Barry OkenOregon Health & Science University, OR9 awards
25Mark AlbersMassachusetts General Hospital, MA9 awards

Most congress contributions

Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 7 of the 353 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 7 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.

#Expertcontributions
1Benzi KlugerUniversity of Rochester Medicine, CO5 contributions
2Joe VergheseRenaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, NY3 contributions
3Fernando PaganMedStar Georgetown University Hospital, DC1 contribution
4Keith JosephsMayo Clinic, MN1 contribution
5Bradley BoeveMayo Clinic, MN1 contribution
6Andrew BudsonBoston University, MA1 contribution
7Gregory JichaUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine, KY1 contribution

Emerging

13 of the 353 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.

Zoe ArvanitakisRush University Medical Center, IL
Claire ClellandUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA
Cathra HalabiUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA
Paul KotzbauerWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO
Nicholas OlneyOR
Raymond OwnbyNova Southeastern University, FL
Godfrey PearlsonHartford Hospital, CT
Eric PetrieUniversity of Washington, WA
Arash SalardiniThe University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, TX
Yvette ShelineUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA
Eric SiemersAcumen Pharmaceuticals, IN
Martin TolarCT
Keith VosselUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA

How these tables are computed

The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Alzheimer's / Dementia, from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.

Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.

The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.

What is deliberately absent

Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.

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