Bradford C Dickerson MD

Bradford C. Dickerson, MD, is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a staff behavioral neurologist affiliated with the McCance Center for Brain Health. He serves as Director of the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and is also a behavioral neurologist in the MGH Memory Disorders Unit, providing evaluation and care for patients with complex cognitive and behavioral neurological conditions. Dr. Dickerson’s clinical interests include Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, mild cognitive impairment, and posterior cortical atrophy, with a focus on the use of neuroimaging and diagnostic markers in neurodegenerative disease. He is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and holds the Tom Rickles Chair in Progressive Aphasia Research. In addition, he leads the Neuroimaging Core of the MGH Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and is affiliated with Harvard’s Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. Dr. Dickerson earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and completed residency and fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, followed by fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is board certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has been recognized with the American Academy of Neurology Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology.