The LBDA Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) members are international leaders in LBD research and clinical management. They provide the most up-to-date medical and research information, which we use to create informative publications for the general public, caregivers and the medical profession.

James B. Leverenz, M.D. , Chair
VA-PSHCS, Parkinson's Disease and Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Centers
Associate Professor, Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Bradley F. Boeve, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Division of Behavioral Neurology and Sleep Disorders Center
Department of Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN, USA

Dennis W. Dickson, M.D.
Professor of Pathology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jacksonville, FL, USA

John Duda, M.D.
Director, Parkinson's Disease Research Education and Clinical Center
Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Tanis Ferman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Clinical Neuropsychology
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Joseph H. Friedman, M.D.
Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center NeuroHealth
Clinical Professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University
Warwick, RI

Douglas R. Galasko, M.D.
Associate Professor In-Residence
Department of Neurosciences
University of California
San Diego, CA, USA

James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H.*
Associate Professor, Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurobiology
Director, Memory Diagnostic Center and Alzheimer Treatment Unit
Director, Education and Community Outreach Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
HOPE Center for Neurological Disorders
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA

Serge Gauthier, M.D., FRCPC
Professor, departments of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Medicine
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Howard Hurtig, M.D.
Co-Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Professor and Vice Chair, Departmentt of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Daniel Kaufer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, UNC Memory Disorders Program
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Kenji Kosaka, M.D., Ph.D. **
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Yokohama City University School of Medicine
Yokohama, Japan

Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Carol F. Lippa, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
Director, Memory Disorders Program
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Oscar Lopez, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA 

Ian G McKeith M.D., FMed Sci.
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
Clinical Director, Institute for Ageing and Health
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle, England, UK

Bernard Ravina, M.D, M.S.C.E.
Associate Professor, Neurology
Director, MIND Unit
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, NY, USA

Andrew Singleton, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator and Chief
Molecular Genetic Section
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Debby W. Tsuang, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
   Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor
   Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington
Staff Physician, VAPSHCS
Seattle, WA, USA

Daniel Weintraub, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
 

*LBDA Board of Directors
**Honorary SAC Member