G. Alexander Hishaw

Dr. Hishaw is a member of the faculty in the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. His clinical duties include neuropsychiatric management of traumatic brain injury with the polytrauma section of the Southern Arizona VA and neurobehavioral assessment and treatment of dementia and traumatic brain injury at the University of Arizona Medical Center, University campus. He previously completed a fellowship as the Evelyn F. McKnight Fellow in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. Prior to that, he completed a combined residency in Neurology and Psychiatry.

His clinical and research activities include Head Injury, Dementia, and the impact of white matter disorders of the brain on behavior and cognition. He has participated in a number of clinical research studies directed at improved diagnosis and management of Alzheimer’s disease as well as the neuroimaging correlates of normal aging and the impact of traumatic brain injury on the aging brain.