- Scope of Dementia: Epidemiology and Public Health Impact
- Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
- Pharmacotherapy of Cognition
- Management of Behaviors
- Management of Function: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
- Management of Function - Basic Activities of Daily Living
- Health Economics and Financial Decision Making
- The Primary Care Physician’s Role in the Recognition, Diagnosis, and Management of Dementia
- Ethical Issues in Dementia
- Legal Issues in Dementia
- Caregiver Stress and Possible Solutions
- Local and National Resource Listing
Douglas Scharre, MD, received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed his neurology residency at Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, California.
After completing a neurobehavior fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, he joined the Ohio State University (OSU) faculty in the Department of Neurology in 1993 and is presently Director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology.
Dr. Scharre, a board-certified neurologist, is Associate Professor of Neurology at OSU, Medical Director of the Neurobehavior and Memory Disorders Clinics at OSU Medical Center, and Medical Director of the Forest Hills Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders in Columbus, Ohio.
His research focuses on early detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and dementia using biomarkers, cognitive evaluation, and functional neuroimaging. He has developed the cognitive assessment tool SAGE to help to identify individuals with MCI and early dementia. He also created the 4-Turn Test to help decide whether Alzheimer’s disease patients should or should not be driving.
He has participated in over 100 multi-center clinical trials in dementia and MCI, and has published over 90 journal papers, book chapters, and abstracts in the area of cognitive neurology including dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia, neuroimaging in dementia, and neuropsychiatric aspects of neurological disease.
