Professional Background: M.D., UAB School of Medicine, 1994
Office: SC 620C, 1720 7th Avenue S, Birmingham AL 35294-0017
Personal Web Page: http://homepage.uab.edu/dgclark/
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Personal Info:Dr. Clark joined the Department of Neurology with an appointment as Assistant Professor in October of 2005. He received his M.D. degree in 1994 from the UAB School of Medicine and was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2002. From 1994 to 1995, Dr. Clark completed a transitional internship at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham. He then completed his neurology residency training from 1995-1998 at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In 1999, he did volunteer work at Hopital de Meskine in Meskine, Cameroon, at Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya, at Christian Medical College-Vellore in Vellore, India, and in January of 2000 at Patan Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Most recently, he completed a fellowship from 2001 to 2005 in cognitive and behavioral neurology at UCLA and West Los Angeles VA Hospital.
Specialty / Interests My research interests are frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease, particularly the disruption of semantic and linguistic abilities characteristic of these diseases. My major long-term goal is to develop methods of cognitive rehabilitation that are practical and inexpensive. A necessary first step toward this goal is to identify targets for therapy. In order to do this I am combining methods from experimental psychology and neuroimaging, as well as developing computational models.
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