Prof. Michael Weiner, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine Specialist, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Overview
Dr. Weiner is Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology at UCSF. He has been conducting research for over 60 years and is a Principal Investigator for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and BrainHealthRegistry.org.
In 1980, he was one of the first to use nuclear magnetic resonance on an intact animal. Subsequently, he continued the development of MRI/MRS as a clinical tool and established the Magnetic Resonance Unit, which became the Neurodegenerative Disease Imaging Center at the San Francisco VAMC.
Author of over 940 peer-reviewed articles, he has trained several dozen postdoctoral fellows and has received numerous honors, including the Young Investigator Award from the American College of Cardiology in 1976 and, more recently, the Nancy and Ronald Reagan Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, the Potamkin Prize from the American Academy of Neurology, an honorary doctorate from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France in 2019, and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research from the Alzheimer’s Association in 2021.
