Dr. Laurie Ryan is Chief of the Dementias of Aging Branch in the Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute on Aging, part of the NIH. She oversees the development, coordination, and implementation of NIA’s basic and clinical Alzheimer’s disease research program. Dr. Ryan also directs the Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials research portfolio. Dr. Ryan received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1986 and her Masters in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland in 1991. She undertook her doctoral training in clinical psychology (with specialty training in neuropsychology) at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She obtained her PhD in 1997 and went on to complete a fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital/Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.In September 2005, Dr. Ryan joined the NIA as the Director for Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials. In December 2013, she was promoted to her current position.

Neuropsychology, Clinical trials