Gary Small Email & Phone Number

Gary Small, MD, is Chair of Psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center, Behavioral Health Physician-in-Chief and the Hovnanian Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Behavioral Health for Hackensack Meridian Health. He is a co-inventor of the first positron emission tomography (PET) scanning method that provides images in living people of Alzheimer’s disease abnormal brain proteins– amyloid plaques and tau tangles. In addition to testing compounds that may benefit cognitive abilities and possibly delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease symptoms, Dr. Small has studied and developed lifestyle and memory training programs for improving cognition and healthy aging, which have been made available throughout the U.S. and abroad in senior centers, hospitals, and other community sites. Dr. Small has authored over 500 scientific works and received numerous awards and honors, including the American Psychiatric Association’s Weinberg Award for Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s top 50 innovators in science and technology. He is the author of 12 popular books, including The New York Times bestseller, The Memory Bible.

Listed skills include Neuroscience, Clinical Research, Psychiatry, Alzheimer'S Disease, and 46 others.