Gregory A. Jicha, MD, PhD

Dr. Gregory Jicha earned an MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and completed a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Jicha is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Jicha serves on the Executive Committee and is the Director of the Clinical Core of the University of Kentucky (UK) and the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Center. He also directs the Telemedicine Cognitive Clinic at UK, designed to reach rural populations across Kentucky for clinical and research-related activities in AD and related disorders. Dr. Jicha holds the Robert T. and Nyles Y. McCowan Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Research at UK.

His current research interests lie in mild cognitive impairment, clinicopathological correlations in early preclinical disease states, and clinical trials of disease-modifying therapies for AD. He is the principle investigator at UK for the National Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study Group and serves on the Clinical Task Force and Steering Committee for the National Institute of Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Center Program.