Arnold Eiser, MD
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Associate Editor
Term Expiration:
12/31/2024
Affiliation(s):
Environmental Neuroscience Group; CEET; Perelman School of Medicine; University of Pennsylvanai
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Areas of Interest:
Aging and Cognition, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, neuroinflammation, Environmental Toxins
Biography & Research:
Arnold R. Eiser, MD is an Adjunct Member, Environmental Neuroscience Group, Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), an Adjunct Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health, an Adjunct Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians.
Over the past several years, Dr. Eiser has extensively researched the interfaces of the neurosciences and environmental health, coming to important new understandings of dementia that have led to publications in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, Brain Research and the American Journal of Medicine. He has served as a reviewer for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Journal, Neurotoxicology, Neurochemistry International, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the American Journal of Medicine and serves on the latter’s editorial board and now as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. He is the author of Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age: New Insights from Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine and Public Health (Rowman & Littlefield, Oct, 2021) and The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America: Philosophical, Cultural and Social Considerations (Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
He has served as Chief of General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago; President of the Chicago Clinical Ethics Program;, Vice President of Medical Education for Mercy Health System and Associate Dean for Mercy Programs and Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine; Director of Ambulatory Care, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine at Elmhurst Hospital, Associate Chief of Nephrology, Elmhurst Hospital, Associate Professor, Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Eiser is a recipient of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Judges Award (2006), the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award (2010), the American College of Physicians’ Laureate Award (2008), Mastership of the American College of Physicians (2014).
