Gil Rabinovici, MD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

415-514-2374

Dr. Gil Rabinovici holds the Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Distinguished Professorship in Memory & Aging in the UCSF Department of Neurology. He received his BS degree from Stanford University and MD from Northwestern University Medical School.

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He completed neurology residency (and chief residency) at UCSF and a behavioral neurology fellowship at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, where he cares for patients with cognitive disorders.

Dr. Rabinovici’s research investigates how structural, functional and molecular brain imaging techniques can be used to improve diagnostic accuracy in dementia and to study the biology of neurodegenerative diseases, with the goal of accelerating drug development. He is Director of the NIH-funded UCSF Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, study chair of the Imaging Dementia-Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) and New IDEAS studies (~25,000 total participants), as well as co-PI on the emerging Alzheimer’s Network for Treatment and Diagnostics (ALZ-NET), co-PI and PET Core lead of the Longitudinal Evaluation of Alzheimer’s Disease Study (LEADS) and PI on several additional national and local clinical, imaging and translational studies focused on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. His work is supported by NIH, Alzheimer’s Association, American College of Radiology, Rainwater Charitable Foundation and industry partners. He has authored over 280 peer-reviewed publications and the impact of his work is ranked in the top 1% in the field of Neuroscience (https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/11/424341/more-30-researchers-among-most-influential).

Dr. Rabinovici’s contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 Kuhl-Lassen Award from the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2015 Christopher Clark Award in Amyloid Imaging, the 2012 American Academy of Neurology Research Award in Geriatric Neurology and the 2010 de Leon Prize from the Alzheimer’s Association.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2020
  • Fellow Behavioral Neurology UCSF 06/2007
  • Resident Neurology UCSF 06/2005
  • Intern Internal Medicine Stanford University Medical School 06/2002
  • M.D. School of Medicine Northwestern University 06/2001
  • B.S. Biological Sciences Stanford University 06/1997

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (327)

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