Dr. Weiner is UCSF Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology, and the CEO of the AI voice company, Vaicro. He has conducted research for over 60 years and is Principal Investigator of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the BrainHealthRegistry.org. He was one of the first to perform nuclear magnetic resonance on an intact animal. He then pursued development of MRI/MRS as a clinical tool and established the Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VAMC. Dr. Weiner has published over 1,030 peer-reviewed articles, trained dozens of postdoctoral fellows, and received numerous honors including the Alzheimer’s Association’s Nancy and Ronald Reagan Award, the Potamkin Prize of the American Academy of Neurology, a Docteur Honoris Causa Degree from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, from the Alzheimer’s Association in 2021. His current interest is AI applications to ADRD research, especially development of AI-powered conversational voice agents to perform clinical and cognitive assessments.

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