Meet the Experts: Soo Borson, MD

Soo Borson, MD
Director, Memory Disorders Clinic
University of Washington Medical Center

Soo Borson MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, where she directs the Memory Disorders Clinic at University Medical Center.

She is a core investigator in the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, past Chair of the NIMH Mental Disorders of Aging Initial Review Group, past President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation, and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the Gerontological Society of America.

She has been senior editorial advisor to the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and is Associate Editor (Neuropsychiatry) of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Borson is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine and of the University of Washington’s psychiatric and geropsychiatric residency programs, and is a Fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership Program in Academic Medicine. Dr. Borson’s clinical interests focus on diagnosis and treatment of dementias. Her research activities bridge clinical neuroscience and health services, focusing principally on improving early diagnosis and comprehensive care for cognitive disorders of late life.