Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D. is Director of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada and Cleveland, Ohio. His is the Andrea and Joseph Hahn Professor of Neurotherapeutics of the Neurological Institute of Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Cummings’ research and leadership in the field of Alzheimer’s disease have been recognized through the Henderson Award of the American Geriatrics Society (2006), the Research Award of the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Research Foundation (2008), and the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Award of the national Alzheimer’s Association (2008). In 2010, he received the Legacy Award from the Ticki Wilkerson-Kassel Movement Therapy Foundation and was honored by the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry with their Distinguished Scientist Award.

Dr. Cummings is the author of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI), which is the most commonly used tool for characterizing behavioral disturbances in dementia syndromes and for measuring the effect of therapies on neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Dr. Cummings is an experienced clinical trialist with expertise in clinical trial design and analysis, global trial implementation, and trial outcome measures. He has published over 600 articles and 30 books on Alzheimer’s disease and related topics.

Dr. Cummings completed Neurology residency and a Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. US training was followed by a Research Fellowship in Neuropathology and Neuropsychiatry at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, England. Dr. Cummings was formerly the director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA. He is past president of the Behavioral Neurology Society and of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. Dr. Cummings has authored or edited 30 books and published nearly 600 peer-reviewed papers.

Dr. Cummings was featured in the Gentleman’s Quarterly (June 2009), Vogue (September 2009) and Vanity Fair (September 2009) as a “Rockstar of Science.” He appeared in Beverly Hills Lifestyles (2010) for his many scientific accomplishments.

His current titles include:
Director, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Andrea and Joseph Professor of Neurotherapeutics
Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute
Las Vegas, Nevada and Cleveland, Ohio