Steven T. DeKosky

Steven T. DeKosky (born 1947) is a medical researcher and academic known for his work in the field of Alzheimers disease. DeKosky has served as professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. On August 1, 2008, DeKosky became Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, an appointment announced June 12, 2008.cite web |url=http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=5478 |title=DeKosky Appointed Dean of University of Virginia School of Medicine |work=UVa News |date=2008-06-12 |accessdate=2008-06-16]

DeKosky received his bachelors degree from Bucknell University and completed graduate work in neuroscience and psychology at the University of Florida, graduating from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1974. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a three-year residency in neurology at the University of Florida concluding in 1978, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurochemistry at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center in U.Va.'s Department of Neurology, and his first academic appointment was in the Department of Neurology in 1979. In the 1990s he was on the faculty of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He became permanent chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.

DeKosky's research focuses on both the science and clinical care of Alzheimer's disease. He is currently director of a national multicenter trial assessing the effectiveness of Gingko biloba in delaying the onset of dementia in healthy adults.cite web |url=http://www.neurology.upmc.edu/faculty/dekosky.html |title=Steven T. DeKosky, MD |work=University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |accessdate=2008-06-16]

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