Howard M. Fillit, MD, is a geriatrician, neuroscientist and leading expert in Alzheimer's disease. He serves as the Co-Founder, Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), a nonprofit organization that he helped establish in 1998. Dr. Fillit has had a distinguished academic medicine career. He has held faculty positions at The Rockefeller University, the SUNY-Stony Brook School of Medicine, and the Cornell University School of Medicine. In 1987, he joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he is currently a clinical professor of geriatric medicine and palliative care, medicine and neuroscience. From 1995–1998, he was the corporate medical director for Medicare at New York Life, responsible for over 125,000 Medicare-managed care members in five regional markets. Dr. Fillit earned his bachelor of arts in neurobiology cum laude from Cornell University and his medical degree from the SUNY-Upstate Medical University. Throughout his career, Dr. Fillit has maintained a limited private practice in New York City in consultative geriatric medicine with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He has also served as a consultant to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, health care organizations and philanthropies. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 scientific and clinical publications and is the senior editor of Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. Dr. Fillit has received several awards and honors including the Rita Hayworth Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. He is a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, the American College of Physicians, the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine. Howard M. Fillit, MD, is a geriatrician, neuroscientist and leading expert in Alzheimer's disease. He serves as the Co-Founder, Founding Executive Director and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF), a nonprofit organization that he helped establish in 1998. Dr. Fillit has had a distinguished academic medicine career. He has held faculty positions at The Rockefeller University, the SUNY-Stony Brook School of Medicine, and the Cornell University School of Medicine. In 1987, he joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he is currently a clinical professor of geriatric medicine and palliative care, medicine and neuroscience. From 1995–1998, he was the corporate medical director for Medicare at New York Life, responsible for over 125,000 Medicare-managed care members in five regional markets. Dr. Fillit earned his bachelor of arts in neurobiology cum laude from Cornell University and his medical degree from the SUNY-Upstate Medical University. Throughout his career, Dr. Fillit has maintained a limited private practice in New York City in consultative geriatric medicine with a focus on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He has also served as a consultant to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, health care organizations and philanthropies. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 scientific and clinical publications and is the senior editor of Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. Dr. Fillit has received several awards and honors including the Rita Hayworth Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. He is a fellow of the American Geriatrics Society, the American College of Physicians, the Gerontological Society of America and the New York Academy of Medicine.

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