National Institute on Aging

Madhav Thambisetty is a Board-certified neurologist with sub-specialty training in cognitive/behavioral neurology and sleep disorders. He completed both residency and fellowship training in the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Prior to training in Neurology, he was awarded a PhD (DPhil) in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Oxford where he pursued doctoral studies on a Felix scholarship. His PhD thesis examined the role of synaptic remodeling in the actions of anti-depressant treatments. In 2004, he was awarded a research fellowship by the Alzheimer’s Society of the United Kingdom to pursue research into ‘Blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease’ at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. He was elected to the Emanoel Lee medical research fellowship at St. Cross College, Oxford in 2004. In 2016, he was awarded the Norman Geschwind prize in Behavioral Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). He is currently also an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.