Dr. Frank Longo is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. He received his MD, and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California. Following an internship in medicine at New York University, he trained as a resident in neurology at the University of California, where he also completed a fellowship in neurobiology. He joined the UCSF faculty and eventually served as a Professor and Vice Chair of UCSF’s Department of Neurology. Before joining Stanford Medicine in 2006, he was the H. Houston Merritt Professor and Chair of Neurology at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He was the 2015 recipient of the inaugural Melvin R. Goodes Prize for Excellence in Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and his team’s work on Alzheimer’s therapeutics was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 2016. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institute on Aging at the NIH. His interests include translational research in neurodegenerative disease prevention and therapeutics, providing patient care in the Stanford Health Care Memory Disorders Clinic, and mentoring medical students and other trainees.
