Francois Boller

Francois Boller, born in Montreux, Switzerland in 1938, is a French-American clinical professor of neurology in the Department of Neurology at George Washington University in Washington D.C. currently living and working in Paris, France as a co-series-editor of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology(edited by Elsevier). He is the founder and former Director of the Alzheimer Disease Research Centre (ADRC) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1993 he co-founded the Journal of Neurology with Professor Per Soel Sorensen, the official journal of the European Academy of Neurology, which he co-edited until 2007.

In 2004 he received the Ottorino Rossi Award, for his valuable contribution to understanding hitherto hidden aspects of brain-behavior relationships and for his unrelenting activity as a teacher, editor, and promoter of international endeavors in the fields of neurology and neuropsychology. His career has led him to several countries; Italy, France, and the United States. Throughout his itinerary he succeeded in maintaining a very coherent approach to his research. Some of the topics he chose to investigate include focal brain damaged patients - particularly aphasia – diffuse brain damaged patients, cognitive impairment and aging people. Provided by Wikipedia