Robert P. Friedland MD

Robert P. Friedland is a clinical and research neurologist devoted to the study of brain disorders associated with aging. He is a graduate of the City College of New York and graduated received his MD degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1973. He completed his neurology residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital and was a fellow in dementia and aging at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY with Robert Katzman. He then worked at the University of California, Davis, and in the Research Medicine Group of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University California, Berkeley where he served as Chief Neurologist. From 1985 to 1990 he was Deputy Clinical Director and Chief of the Section on Brain Aging and Dementia of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health of Bethesda, MD. At the CWRU School of Medicine he was Professor of Neurology, Radiology and Psychiatry and Chief of the Laboratory of Neurogeriatrics from 1990 to 2008. In December of 2008 he joined the faculty of the University of Louisville, as the Rudd Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Neurology.

Dr. Friedland’s work has focused on clinical and biological issues in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. Dr. Friedland has authored or coauthored over 220 scientific publications in referred journals and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health as well as several foundations, institutes, corporations, and families. He received over $1M annual research funding to support his work from 1985-2013. He is currently on sabbatical leave in Kyoto Japan as a Long-Term Invitational Fellow, supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is working with collaborators at the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and the Kyoto Institute of Technology on the influence of the microbiota on the development of neurodegeneration in transgenic Drosophila.