Henry Paulson, MD, PhD, FANA
University of Michigan
Dr. Henry L. Paulson, MD, PhD, is the Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology and director of the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Paulson received his MD and PhD in Cell Biology from Yale University in 1990, and then completed neurology residency and neurogenetics/movement disorders fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. Her served on the Neurology faculty at the University of Iowa for ten years before moving to the University of Michigan in 2007. Dr. Paulson's research and clinical interests concern the causes and treatment of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, with an emphasis on polyglutamine diseases, Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Nationally, Dr. Paulson has served on the advisory boards of numerous disease-related national organizations and is currently a member of the National Advisory Council for Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council at the National Institutes of Health. Among his awards, Dr. Paulson was recipient of an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award, the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholar in Aging Award, and the NINDS Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship. He is an elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.