Marwan N. Sabbagh, MD

Dr. Sabbagh earned an undergraduate degree from the University of California Berkeley and an MD from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He received residency training in neurology at Baylor College of medicine and a completed a fellowship in geriatric neurology and dementia at the UCSD School of Medicine.

Dr. Sabbagh board-certified neurologist and geriatric neurologist, hopes to work himself out of a job. Considered one of the leading experts in Alzheimer's disease and dementia, he serves as director of the Banner Sun Health Research Institute. Dr. Sabbagh has dedicated his entire career to finding a cure for Alzheimer's and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Sabbagh is a leading investigator for many prominent national Alzheimer's prevention and treatment trials, including Alzheimer immunotherapy studies. He is senior editor for the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Clinical Neurology News. Dr. Sabbagh is author of, The Alzheimer's Answer, with a forward written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. His latest book The Alzheimer's Prevention Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Better Brain Health is now available.

Dr. Sabbagh also served as editor for the book Palliative Care for Advanced Alzheimer's and Dementia: Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Based Care and has edited the soon-to-be-released Handbook of Geriatric Neurology. He is the author of more than 200 medical and scientific publications in Alzheimer's disease research.

Dr. Sabbagh is the director of Clinical Research at BSHRI and Senior Scientist for the Haldeman Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics. In addition to his clinical work and private practice in Sun City, Ariz., Dr. Sabbagh is associate director of the Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Core Center, a clinical instructor in the Banner/St. Joseph's Geriatric Fellowship Program and a research professor of neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix.