Giovanni B. Frisoni

Clinical neurologist, Full Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Founding Director of the Memory Clinic of the Geneva University Hospitals. Founding physician and later Scientific Director at the National Alzheimer’s Centre in Brescia, Italy. Author of over 800 scientific papers listed in PubMed on the clinical use of biomarkers for diagnosis and prevention. Founding editorial board member of The Lancet Neurology. Has led national and international projects funded by the European Commission, IMI, the Alzheimer’s Association, Italian and Swiss Ministry of Health, and industry. Chairman of Alzheimer’s Imaging Consortium at International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD, now AAIC) in 2010 and 2011. Honorary member of the French Society of Neurology (SFN), Italian Society of Neurology (SIN), Austrian Alzheimer’s Society, and Italian Dementia Society (SINDEM). Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and Investigator Award Winner of