Dr. Adam Boxer is a neurologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center who specializes in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and atypical Parkinsonism (CBD and PSP). He obtained his medical and doctorate degrees as part of the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program at New York University Medical Center. He completed a residency in neurology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellowship in behavioral neurology at UCSF. Boxer is an associate professor in UCSF's Department of Neurology. He directs the Neurosciences Clinical Research Unit at the Sandler Neurosciences Center at Mission Bay, as well as the Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia Clinical Trials Program at the Memory and Aging Center. Boxer received the Edwin Boldrey Award from the San Francisco Neurological Society in 2002 for basic research in neurological disease, the 2005 John Douglas French Foundation Alzheimer's Award, and a 2009 Hellman Family Foundation fellowship.
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