John H. Growdon

John H. Growdon is Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and attending Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1960 and obtained the MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1965. His post-graduate training was in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago, Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and neurochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1984, he founded the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, one of 5 Centers in the United States initially funded by the National Institute on Aging. He directs the Memory and Movement Disorders Units at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests center on the clinical neurology and neuropharmacology of Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases, along with efforts to uncover biologic markers of these diseases that could lead to improved diagnostic accuracy and treatment.