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Dr. Kaufer completed fellowship training in Behavioral and Geriatric Neurology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is board certified in Neurology, and in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. He was a principal co-author of the training curriculum for the subspecialty of Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, and has been a member of the certifying examination committee for this subspecialty since its inception. He completed a Merck-AFAR Fellowship in Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology and received the Augustus Rose Fellowship of the John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation. Current affiliations outside UNC include memberships on the Board of Directors, Eastern North Carolina Alzheimer's Association; the Scientific Advisory Council, Lewy Body Dementia Association; and the Social, Behavioral, and Diversity working group of the national Alzheimer's Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neuropsychiatric Association, and is the immediate past-President of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology.
Clinical interests: Alzheimer's disease, Mild Cognitive impairment, Lewy Body (Parkinson-related) dementias, Frontotemporal dementia; prevention, diagnosis, and comprehensive management. Research interests: development of novel clinical assessment tools for dementia, relationship between sleep disturbances and cognitive/behavioral symptoms in dementia, use of structural and functional imaging as an aid to diagnosis and measuring therapeutic outcomes, investigating novel therapeutic agents for Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
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