Alireza Atri is a renowned cognitive neurologist and clinician-scientist specialized in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Related Disorders (ADRD). He is chief medical officer of Banner Research (Banner Alzheimer’s Institutes, Phoenix and Tucson) and director of the Banner Sun Health Research Institute (Sun City). He serves as associate director of the NIA/NIH-funded Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (AZ-ADRC), leader of the AZ-ADRC clinical core, and co-leader of the biomarker core; he has appointments on the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Atri holds a PhD in biomathematics from UCLA, an MD from UCSF and a MMSc from HMS/MIT. He completed internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital/BWH/HMS programs and fellowships at MGH/HMS (cognitive neurology), Boston University (cognitive/computational neuroscience) and MIT (experimental therapeutics). He is widely published and serves as a leader on several global AD/ADRD experimental therapeutics and biomarker programs and research consortia.