Howard M. Fillit MD

Howard Fillit, MD, a geriatrician, neuroscientist and leading expert in Alzheimer’s disease, is the Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. Dr. Fillit has had a distinguished academic medicine career at the Rockefeller University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he is currently a clinical professor of geriatrics, medicine, and neuroscience. From 1995-1998, he was the corporate medical director for Medicare at New York Life, providing program leadership for over 125,000 elderly people in several regional US markets.