Bruno Dubois MD, PhD

Bruno Dubois is a Professor of Neurology at the Neurological Institute of the University Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC). He is the Director of the “Institute for Memory and Alzheimer Disease” (IM2A), of the Expert Memory Center Paris-Sud, and of the Research INSERM Unit on “Cognition and Neuroimaging in Brain Diseases” at the ICM (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière) at the Salpêtrière Hospital. He is the Coordinator of the National Reference Center for “Rare Dementias” (including Fronto-Temporal Dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and Cortico-Basal Degeneration) and of the National Reference Multisite Center for “Young-Onset Alzheimer's disease”. He is the Past President of the Scientific Committee of France-Alzheimer and President of the Scientific Committee of IFRAD (International Fund Raising for Alzheimer’s disease), PSP-France, and France-FTD Associations. 

Prof. Dubois completed his Neurology residency and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the Salpêtrière Hospital. He made his PhD on the central cholinergic systems in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in rats. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed articles on anatomical and biochemical studies on the central cholinergic systems in rodents and humans, on cognitive neuropharmacology, on neuropsychology in patients with dementia, with special reference to memory, executive functions, and frontal lobe behaviors, and on biomarkers in neurodegenerative disorders. He was co-chairing the task force on the criteria and guidelines for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease dementia under the auspices of the Movement Disorders Society. He leads an international working group of experts on the new criteria for Alzheimer's Disease. He is the principal or co-investigator of a number of research programs focusing on AD, prodromal AD, and dementia in Parkinson’s disease.