Dr. François Boller

François Boller, M.D., Ph.D. is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the George Washington University Medical School (GW) in Washington DC. Swiss born, he obtained his Medical Degree at the University of Pisa, specialized in Neurology at the University of Milan and spent several years at Boston University Medical School, including a Fellowship under the direction of Dr. Norman Geschwind. He obtained a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In 1983, he became Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh where he founded and directed one of the first NIH funded Alzheimer Disease Research Centers. In 1989, he was put in charge of a Paris-based INSERM Unit dedicated to the Neuropsychology and neurobiology of cerebral aging. He returned to the US and joined the NIH in 2005, before coming to GW in July 2014 where he taught and practiced clinical neurology until November2017 when he moved to Paris where he currently lives. He is Co-Series Editorof the Handbook of Clinical Neurology published by Elsevier. He has authored over 300 papers and books including the Handbook of Neuropsychology (with Jordan Grafman). He co-founded the European Journal of Neurology which he edited from 1993 to 2005 and co-edited the Journal “Functional Neurology” from 2004 to 20020. He is a member of l’Ordre des Médecins de la Ville de Paris, of the French Neurological Society and of the American Neurological Association; he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He is Past President of the International Society of the History of Neurosciences He organized its 20th Annual Meeting (2015, Washington D.C)