Dr. McDade focuses on identifying critical interactions between vascular disease and neurodegenerative disease. His current research combines neuroimaging, clinical evaluation, and basic science with an end goal of identifying better measures and targets for interventions and prevention relating to cognitive aging. He serves as principal investigator for the DIAN observational trial, the DIAN treatment trial, and the Knight Family DIAN-TU primary prevention trial.
Dr. McDade earned his bachelor’s degree from Canisius College and his medical degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he also served as a chief resident, and his fellowship training in cognitive and behavioral neurology at the Mayo Clinic. He was an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Pittsburgh from 2010-15 and joined the Washington University faculty as an associate professor in 2015.