Darren Gitelman

Dr. Darren Gitelman studied medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, N.Y., followed by a fellowship in brain imaging at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was then a neurology resident and chief resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. Dr. Gitelman joined the Neurology faculty at Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill., in 1994. In 2014 he joined Advocate Health as the senior medical director of the Advocate Memory Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Ill., and Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. His current research is focused on clinical drug trials and enhancing cognitive testing in older adults.

Dr. Gitelman has engaged in consulting/advisory activities with AbbVie, Biogen, Eisai Inc., Genentech/Roche, Lilly, and Novo Nordisk. He has engaged in clinical trial investigator activities with Biogen, Cassava, Eisai Inc., and Lilly.