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About Nancy B Isenberg, MD MPH FAAN DipABLM

Nancy Isenberg MD MPH FAAN is the Medical Director of the Center for Healthy Aging, Swedish Neuroscience Institute, Providence Health & Services and Co-lead of Project ECHO Dementia. She is a subspecialty trained behavioral neurologist and neuropsychiatrist with expertise in implementation science, clinical neurodegenerative disease, and functional brain imaging. She is committed to improving population health, health disparities and family-centered intraprofessional dementia care. She has 25 years of experience in medical care for persons with Alzheimer disease and related disorders, and their families. In her clinical work she has developed a number of clinical projects and service lines, with direct leadership experience in the interdisciplinary care of cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative conditions.  She advocates and serves at the system, local, state and national levels around development and support of dementia care programs and services.

Positions

2020 - Present Attending in Neurology, Providence Swedish Medical Center
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2020 - Present Director, General Neurology,, Providence Swedish Neuroscience Institute
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2020 - Present Lead, Cognitive Care Group, Providence
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2020 - Present Medical Director, Center for Healthy Aging/Neurology, Providence Swedish Neuroscience Institute
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Curriculum Vitae


Disciplines


Grants

2020 Development Project Awards
ADRC
2007 - 2010 Basic and Translational Research Opportunities in the Social Neuroscience of Mental Health
NIH
2008 K99 grant Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2008/05 ZHD1 DSR-W
NIH
2001 - 2003 Foundation Grant
Cure Autism Now
2001 - 2002 Foundation Grant
Autism Society of America
2000 - 2001 Nefiracetam and post-stroke depression” Phase II
Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co.
Role: Principal Investigator
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2020 - Present Committee Lead, Cognitive Care Work Group, Providence Health & Services
2012 - Present Member, Behavioral Neurology Section Practice Work Group
1998 - Present Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1998 - Present Member, Behavioral Neurology Society
1998 - Present Member, Doctors without Boarders
1993 - Present Member, American Academy of Neurology
2011 - 2012 Clinical Research Chair, Benaroya Research Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center: Optimally Paced Exercise in Alzheimer Di
1998 - 2011 Member, American Neuropsychiatric Association
1998 - 2011 Member, Association of Research in Nervous and Mental Disorders
1998 - 2011 Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility
1998 - 2008 Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
1998 - 2008 Member, Society for Neuroscience
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Neuroscience
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Neuroimage
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Honors and Awards

  • 1986 Mellon Fellow at National Academy of Engineering
  • 1995 American Academy of Neurology, Resident Teaching Award
  • 1995 Annenberg Center, Education Award for Teaching in Neurology
  • 1996-1998 DeWitt-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fellow in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology
  • 2003-2008 Mentored-Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the NIH (NINDS)
  • 2007 Global Scholar’s Teaching Program, Newcastle, UK.
  • 2008 Global Scholar’s Teaching Program, Newcastle, UK.
  • 2012 Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, American Academy of Neurology Advocate Award
  • 2013 Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, American Academy of Neurology Advisor Award
  • 2016 Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
  • 2017 Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum, American Academy of Neurology Faculty Award
  • 2017 Community Health Outreach Award, National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia in Primary Care
  • 2018 Consultant, Athira Pharma
  • 2019 Advisor, Maude’s Award for Innovation in Alzheimer’s Care
  • 2021 Health Care Equity Scholarship from American Academy of Neurology
  • 2017-2018 Community Health Outreach Award, National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia in Primary Care.
  • 2003-2008 NINDS Mentored-Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award: Functional MR Imaging of Social Cognition in Autism, 4K23 NS043301
  • 2021 Health Care Equity Scholarship from the American Academy of Neurology

Education

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1996 - 1998 Fellowship, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry / Research Fellow, DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest, Cornell University Medical College
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1993 - 1996 Neurology Residency, Columbia University
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1992 - 1993 Intern in Medicine, University of New Mexico
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1992 MD, Columbia University ‐ College of Physicians and Surgeons
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1992 MPH, Columbia University ‐ School of Public Health
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1986 BA, Biophysics, University of California - Berkeley
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Research Works (43)