| Name: | Gregory A. Jicha |
| Position Type: | Chair |
| Appointment Start Date: | 07/01/05 |
| Appointment End Date: | 06/30/10 |
| Area of Specialty: | Behavioral Neurology and dementia |
| Summary Vita: | I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut. I was awarded a NIH MSTP scholarship and obatined my M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY. My doctoral research investigated the post-translational modifications of the microtubule-associated protein tau in Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative dementias. My internship, neurology residency, and behavioral neurology fellowship were undertaken at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where I trained and researched under Ronald Petersen, Ph.D., M.D.. I have 17 original peer-reviewed publications and am first author on 12 of these, and have co-authored two book chapters in the field. I am the Assistant director of the Clinical Core and co-assistant director of the Education and Information Transfer Core of the UK Alzheimer's Disease Center. I sit on the Executive Committee of the UK ADC and aslo on the Steering committee for the National Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Group. I am also the Director of The Biologically Resilient Adults in Neurologic Studies (BRAiNS)longitudinal cohort of 500 cognitively normal elderly subjects here at UK. |
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| Professional Affiliations: | 1992-present American Medical Association 2001-present American Academy of Neurology 2005-present International Psychogeriatric Association 2005: American Academy of Neurology 57th Annual Meeting. Jicha GA, Parisi JE, Dickson DW, Boeve BF, Knopman DS, Petersen RC. Alzheimer and lewy body pathology in a centenarian case series. 2005: International Psychogeriatric Association, Expert conference on MCI, Washington D.C. Neuropathology of Mild cognitive impairment. 2005: MCI Symposium III, Bal Harbour, FL. Neuropathology of mild cognitive impairment: the Mayo Clinic series. 2005: Working group on “Diagnostic criteria for prodromal Alzheimer’s disease”, Florence, Italy. Neuropathology of mild cognitive impairment. 2006: American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting- Symposium. Toronto, Canada. Advances in the Understanding of the Dementia Spectrum: Evolution in the Understanding and Treatment of Mild Cognitive Impairment. |
| Primary Research Focus: | Clinical and clinico-pathologic studies in mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, and other degenerative dementias. |
| Key Contributions: | 1) Demonstration of the pathological heterogeneity of amnestic forms of mild cognitive impairment that present with a homogeneous clinical phenotype. 2) Elucidation of clinical tests that distinguish among pathologic phenotypes of mild cognitive impairment. |
| Publications: | 1. Jicha, G.A., Rodriguez, A.J., Steeves, T.D.L., Benarroch, E.E., and Westmoreland, B.F. (2006) EEG changes in a patient with steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with antibodies to thyroperoxidase (SREAT, Hashimoto’s encephalopathy). J. Clin Neurophysiol 23(4):371-373. 2. Geda, Y., Knopman, D., Rocca, W., Edland, S., Smith, G., Negash, S., Mrazek, D., Jicha, G., Boeve, B., Ivnik, R., and Petersen, R. (2006) Depression, APOE genotype, and the incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Arch Neurol, 63(3):435-440. 3. Jicha, G.A., Parisi, J.E., Dickson, D.W., Johnson, K.A., Cha, R., Ivnik, R.J., Tangalos, E., Boeve, B.F., Knopman, D.S., Braak, H., and Petersen, R.C. (2006) Neuropathology of mild cognitive impairment following progression to clinical dementia. Arch Neurol, 63(5):674-681. 4. Petersen, R.C., Parisi, J.E., Dickson, D.W., Jicha, G.A., Johnson, K.A., Knopman, D.S., Boeve, B.F., Ivnik, R.J., Smith, G.E., Tangalos, E., Braak, H., Edland, S.D., and Kokmen, E. (2006) Neuropathology of MCI. Arch Neurol, 63(5):665-672. 5. Jicha, G.A., Petersen, R.C., Knopman, D.S., Boeve, B.F., Smith, G.E., Geda, Y.E., Johnson, K.A., Cha, R., DeLucia, M.W., Braak, H., Dickson, D.W., and Parisi, J.E. (2006) Argyrophilic grain disease in demented subjects presenting initially with mild cognitive impairment of the amnestic type. J Neuropath Exp Neurol, 65(6):602-609. 6. Jicha, G.A. and Petersen, R.C. (2005). Mild Cognitive Impairment. The Dementias 2. Eds. Growdon, J. and Rossor, M., Elsevier Inc, Massachusetts, USA, 2005. |