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Ann McKee, MD
Ann McKee, MD
    Dr. Ann McKee is an associate professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University (BU) School of Medicine, and the director of the Neuropathology Core of BU's Alzheimer's Disease Center, where she is responsible for conducting neuropathological analyses of brain tissue and maintaining the Center's Brain Bank. Dr. McKee also leads clinical-pathological case conferences as part of the Center's Research Seminar series. Dr. McKee's research interests center on the neuropathological alterations associated with neurodegenerative diseases, with a primary focus on the earliest cortical abnormalities of Alzheimer's disease and on the interactions between acquired injuries and neurodegeneration. Her work is centered on the role of ischemic injury in triggering the onset of Alzheimer's disease and on how repetitive traumatic injury instigates a progressive degenerative tauopathy. Dr. McKee is the chief neuropathologist for the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and the BU-based Centenarian Study, where ongoing surveillance of the FHS and centenarian participants will determine the incidence and type of dementia in persons in the 9th through the 11th decades of life. She is also the chief neuropathologist for the Boston-based Veterans Administration Medical Centers and for the Sports Legacy Institute. Dr. McKee is a past recipient of the Moore Award and a recent recipient of the 2006 Moore Award Honorable Mention from the American Association of Neuropathologists.  She is also a recipient of a Merit Award from the department of veterans affairs. Dr. McKee completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin and received her medical degree from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. She completed residency training in neurology at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and fellowship training in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
    Schedule28 Mar 2024