Lon S. Schneider, MD, MS

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Title:

  • Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Gerontology

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Specialties:

  • Psychiatry - Adult
  • Psychiatry - Geriatric

Background:

Dr. Schneider directs the USC State of California Alzheimer's Disease Research and Clinical Center and the clinical core of the USC NIA Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. He has served as a senior scientific advisor at the NIMH, consultant to the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council report on Treatment Efficacy for Geropsychiatric Patients with Severe Severe Mental Illness, on the American Psychiatric Association Committee for Practice Guidelines in Alzheimer's and Other Dementia, the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council Clinical and Services Research Workgroup, and the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Task Force on Dementia. He holds a master's degree in biometry and epidemiology and has expertise in clinical trials methods and drug development. He serves as a co-editor or editorial board member of several publications, including the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Current Alzheimer Research, and Alzheimer's & Dementia among others, and has authored over 280 papers and chapters. He co-edited the textbook Evidenced-based Dementia Practice.

Education:

  • MS, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 1995
  • MD, Hahnemann University Medical College, Philadelphia, 1978

Internships:

  • LAC+USC Medical Center, 1978 - 1979

Residencies:

  • LAC+USC Medical Center: Chief Resident , 1979 - 1982

Fellowships:

  • University of Southern California: Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry, 1982 - 1983

Board Certification:

  • Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)
  • Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Geriatric Psychiatry)

Professional Society Memberships:

  • Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
  • Fellow, Southern California Psychiatric Society
  • American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
  • American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • American Geriatrics Society
  • American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • American Society of Experimental NeuroTherapeutics
  • International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology
  • International Psychogeriatric Association
  • Society of Biological Psychiatry
  • West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry

Awards:

  • Tsai Memorial Lecture, Los Angeles/Brentwood VA Medical Center
  • The Best Doctors in America (Woodward/White, Inc.), 1992 - 2009
  • First Annual Dorothy Kirsten French Memorial Lecture, The French Foundation for Alzheimer Research
  • The 327 Best Mental Health Experts, Good Housekeeping
  • 11th and 21st Annual Research Awards, Los Angeles Alzheimer
  • Best Doctors in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Magazine
  • Senior Investigator Award, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Senator Mark Hatfield Award for Clinical Research, Alzheimer's Association
  • Jay L. Foster Memorial Lecture, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Languages:

  • English