Steven T. DeKosky is Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Deputy Director of the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, where he holds the Aerts-Cosper Professorship in Alzheimer Research. Before moving to the University of Florida, he was vice president and dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medical Sciences. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology and Director of the Pitt/UPMC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and served as a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.