Soo Borson

Soo Borson, MD, is a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University of Southern California and Professor Emerita at the University of Washington, where she developed its memory disorders clinic and led the ADRC’s diversity recruitment efforts. Her work focuses on strategies for improving dementia detection and care delivery, caregiver self-efficacy, and the use of health system data to improve dementia care planning. She co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia at New York University Langone and the Southern California Dementia Care Improvement Network. Her work is guided by the continuing need to translate specialized knowledge of dementia detection, diagnosis, and care into practical, clinically meaningful, and effective tools to improve systems of care.

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