Jeffery L. Cummings

Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD, ScD, is Founding Director, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada and Cleveland, Ohio. He is Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He also serves as Principal Investigator/Director of the NIH/NIGMS-funded Center for Neurodegeneration and Translational Neuroscience. Dr. Cummings is a recognized world leader in Alzheimer’s researcher and clinical trials. His many honors include the Henderson Award of the American Geriatrics Society (2006), the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award of the national Alzheimer’s Association (2008), and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology (2017). In 2010, he was honored by the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry with their Distinguished Scientist Award. In 2018, he received the Leadership and Achievement Award by the International Society of CNS Drug Development and the Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award from the national Alzheimer’s Association. He was featured in the Gentleman’s Quarterly (June 2009) as a “Rock Star of Science.”