Dr. Doraiswamy is a Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and an Affiliate Faculty at the Duke Center for Precision Medicine and Applied Genomics as well as the Duke Microbiome Center. He directs a clinical trials unit that has been involved in the development of many diagnostics and therapeutics in wide use today.
Professor Doraiswamy has been an advisor to leading government agencies, businesses and advocacy groups including the NIH, FDA, and WHO as well as numerous life science companies. He has served as the chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Brain Research and has lectured at leading global forums to advance the forefront of aging and neuroscience research.
Moreover, as an investigator on numerous landmark trials and co-author on more than 400 publications, he has received several awards in recognition of his scientific work. Additionally, he is a leading advocate for increasing funding for brain and behavioral research. He is the co-author of a popular book The Alzheimer’s Action Plan.