Stephen Strittmatter

Stephen Strittmatter, MD, is a neurologist at Yale Medicine specializing in memory disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

He is the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience; chair of the Department of Neuroscience; and director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, the Memory Disorders Clinic, and the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Strittmatter’s interest in the brain and degenerative brain disorders originated at Johns Hopkins, where he completed his MD and PhD training. He went on to do his medical internship and neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital before arriving at Yale University in 1993. Currently, Strittmatter teaches as the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and conducts research in the Strittmatter Lab on repair and regeneration of neurons in patients with dementia. In addition to teaching and research, Strittmatter also sees patients at the Memory Disorders Clinic.