Our mission is to better understand how the aging brain works and design treatments and prevention plans that will result in longer, better lives. Our transdisciplinary approach to clinical research, clinical care, education and training, and community outreach can make a significant positive impact on the lives of individuals and families living in South Florida and beyond.
The Comprehensive Center for Brain Health (CCBH) was created to provide a personalized approach to brain health and improving the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and cure for common age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Lewy Body Dementia, Frontotemporal Degeneration, Vascular Cognitive impairment, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Our center uses a transdisciplinary approach in all of our research projects and clinical care, combining the best practices of neurology, gerontology, nursing, social work, psychotherapy, integrative nutrition, mindfulness, lifestyle modification, physical therapy, falls prevention, public health, medical education, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
CCBH Founding Director, Dr. James E. Galvin, MD, MPH.
CCBH is a Lewy Body Dementia Association Research Center of Excellence (LBDA RCOE)
University of Miami Comprehensive Center for Brain Health is a Lewy Body Dementia Association Research Center of Excellence, giving it recognition as one of the nation’s top 20 academic medical institutions providing support to individuals and families living with LBD.
A LBDA RCOE serves as a centralized and coordinated resource, facilitating efforts to provide research, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment for dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson’s disease, Parkinson’s disease dementia, and related disorders.
View the highlights of CCBH’s Lewy Body Dementia conference held at the Double Tree Hilton in Deerfield Beach, FL with fellow LBDA RCOE University of Florida Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Disease and Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (video 3:32 mins).
Meet the CCBH Team
Alexandria & Bernard Schoninger Endowed Chair in Memory Disorders, Professor …
Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, Associate Director for Operations
Research Assistant Professor of Neurology, Associate Director of Research
Nurse Practitioner of Neurology
Research Nurse Practitioner
Research Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Data Science and T…
Physical Therapist Researcher, Assistant Director of Education
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Data Manager
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator
Office Manager
Assistant Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist
Clinical Research Coordinator
Associate Scientist, Manager of Biorepository
Research Nurse Practitioner
Project Manager
Data Scientist
Research Associate
Research Assistant Professor
Outreach Coordinator
Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
Research Support Specialist
Physician Assistant
Post Doctoral Associate
Research Associate
Research Associate
Physical Therapy Assistant
Research Associate
Project Manager
Research Associate
Research Associate
Database Analyst
Research Assistant
Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Current Grants
Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium
To develop a national network to study Dementia with Lewy bodies including longitudinal clinical and cognitive characterization, imaging and CSF biomarkers, and autopsy.
A Multi-Site Cluster RCT of the Dementia Symp…
To conduct a randomized trial of the Dementia Symptom Management at Home Program for efficacy in improving quality of care for persons living with dementia and their informal caregivers receiving home healthcare.
Family-centered Function Focused Care (Fam-FF…
To test and validate a family-centered function focused care (Fam-FFC) plan to improve physical function, cognitive function, and medicoeconomic outcomes in hospitalized patients with dementia.
Multicultural Community Dementia Screening
To conduct a population-based dementia screening, validate findings in a longitudinal study of ADRD biomarkers, and establish the potential benefits and harms of dementia screening in a multicultural sample
To conduct a population-based dementia screening, validate findings in a longitudinal study of ADRD biomarkers, and establish the potential benefits …
Natives Engaged in Alzheimer’s Research (NE…
To engage, enroll and study American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in novel Alzheimer detection and treatment interventions and encourage biomarker and autopsy program participation
To engage, enroll and study American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in novel Alzheimer detection and …