USA
Associate Professor Brian Appleby, MD
Co-Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, & Pathology Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Dr. Appleby is a neuropsychiatrist with clinical and research interests in prion diseases (e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and young-onset dementias.
Dr. Appleby received a B.A. in biology and philosophy from Goucher College and a M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed an internship at Georgetown University Hospital and a psychiatry residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he also completed a geriatric psychiatry fellowship. Currently, he is Associate Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is co-director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University and co-medical director of the CJD Foundation and a Friend/Advisor to the CJD International Support Alliance.