Biography

Pierre N. Tariot, MD, is board certified in internal medicine and psychiatry, with added qualifications in geriatrics. He was a fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, then faculty at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. Since 2006, he has served as director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, and research professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona, also in Phoenix. Dr Tariot’s work has focused on care and study of people with and at risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), design and implementation of clinical trials for prevention and treatment, development of biomarkers, characterization and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of dementia, and demonstration of effective dementia care. He has served as principal investigator on more than 50 clinical trials related to AD and has published more than 400 papers on these topics, including studies that have led to FDA approval of medications, with research support from the National Institute on Aging, NIMH, and the Alzheimer’s Association.

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