Allan Levey

Dr. Levey is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at Emory University. Dr. Levey has secondary faculty appointments in the Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is also Executive Associate Dean for Research at the School of Medicine and Director of the Goizueta Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Emory.

Dr. Levey is a neurologist and neuroscientist internationally recognized for his work in neurodegenerative disease, with more than 400 research publications. His work in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders has contributed to understanding mechanisms involved in these conditions and translation to new therapeutic strategies and biomarkers. He also made pioneering discoveries of the anatomy and molecular pharmacology of cholinergic systems in brain. He has received numerous awards and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Levey received a bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan and an M.D. and Ph.D. (Immunology) from the University of Chicago. He then trained in Neurology at Johns Hopkins University, and joined their faculty prior to moving to Emory in 1991.