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Address:
Bedford VA Medical Center
Bldg. 62, Room B30
200 Springs Rd.
Bedford, MA 01730
tel 781-687-3360
fax 781-687-3366

 About Dr. Budson

After graduating cum laude from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Andrew Budson was an intern in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then attended the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Residency Program, for which he was chosen to be chief resident in his senior year. He next pursued a fellowship in behavioral neurology and dementia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, after which he joined the staff there. He participated in numerous clinical trials of new drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease in his role as the Associate Medical Director of Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Following his clinical training he spent three years studying memory as a post-doctoral fellow in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Harvard University under Professor Daniel Schacter. After five years as Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, he was recruited jointly by the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and the Bedford VA Hospital. After serving for several years as the Associate Clinical Director and Director of Outpatient Services for the Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC) at the Bedford VA Hospital, he was promoted to the overall Director of this GRECC program. Starting in March of 2009 he has been serving as Acting Chief of Staff at the Bedford VA Hospital. He is also the Director of the Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the Bedford VA Hospital, Associate Director for Research at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Consultant Neurologist at the Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has given over 250 local, national, and international grand rounds and other academic talks, including at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Queen Square, London, Berlin Germany, and Cambridge University, England. He has published over 90 papers in peer reviewed journals including Neurology, Brain, and Cortex, and is a reviewer for more than 40 journals. His review in The New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Memory Dysfunction” has become a must-read for all clinicians evaluating patients with memory complaints. In 2008 was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology. Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology, the prize is awarded yearly for outstanding research in the field of behavioral neurology. Most recently he has been awarded the 2009 Research Award in Geriatric Neurology. Also sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology, the prize is awarded yearly for independent contributions to geriatric neurology research. His current research uses the techniques of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand memory and memory distortions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders.