Professor Jonathan Schott receives the 2023 Bill Thies Award

Professor Jonathan Schott (Professor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (UCLH)) is a clinician scientist with particular interest in how clinical and cognitive data, imaging and fluid biomarkers, life course methods and genetics can be used and combined to improve differential diagnosis and identify pre-symptomatic dementia. He leads Insight 46, a longitudinal biomarker study investigating brain health and dementia in the British 1946 birth cohort and has published more than 300 papers on dementia and aging.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology, chairs the Cognitive Advisory Group of the Association of British Neurologists, and is Chief Medical Office for Alzheimer’s Research UK, Europe’s largest dementia research charity. Schott’s eight-year tenure on the ISTAART executive council — including two years as chair — coincided with a major expansion in membership which now exceeds 10,000 from more than 100 countries, and of Professional Interest Areas which now number 29. He has been particularly involved in promoting early career researchers both within individual PIAs and at the executive level and has contributed to ISTAART events aiming to promote career development.

Bill Thies Award
The Bill Thies Award for Distinguished Service to ISTAART (the Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment) recognizes an ISTAART member who has provided continued and outstanding service to the ISTAART community. The award honors William (Bill) Thies, Ph.D., who passed away on Aug. 16, 2020. During his tenure from 1998 to 2020 as the Alzheimer’s Association’s chief medical and scientific officer, and then as senior medical science advisor, Thies was instrumental in bringing AAIC under the Association’s management. He launched the peer-reviewed journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia^®: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, and the Alzheimer’s Association Research Roundtable.

Links

• Professor Jon Schott's acaedemic profile
• ISTAART: the Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment

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• Alzheimer's Association