Dr. Neelum Aggarwal, MD

Board Member

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Dr. Neelum T. Aggarwal, MD, is the Chief Diversity Officer at American Medical Women’s Association and Professor in the Departments of Neurological Sciences and the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center. She is the Senior Neurologist for the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC), Research Director at the Rush Heart Center for Women, and serves as the Principal Investigator and Site Principal Investigator for multiple NIA-funded research studies and consortia led clinical trials. Her work focuses on how sex, gender, and social determinants of health are associated with risk, detection, and treatment of cognitive changes associated with dementia. Dr. Aggarwal is a long-standing voice for community-based research, clinical trial participation, public health initiatives, both in Chicago and nationally. She was the past chair of the Governing Council of the American Medical Association- Women's Physician Section and presently serves as the AMWA delegate to the AMA House of Delegates.

Currently, she co-chairs a NIA funded Inclusion, Diversity and Education in Alzheimer's Disease - Outreach and Policy subcommittee and the Advisory Group on Risk Evidence Education for Dementia. As the Strategic Advisor for the CHI's Science Runway, a Chicago Innovation Mentor (CIM), and past National Chair for the Women in Bio Mentoring, Advisors and Peers Committee, she is uniquely positioned to work with diverse groups of colleagues, mentor and sponsor women and men in the medical, life sciences and STEM sectors. She completed her medical degree from the Rosalind Franklin University - Chicago Medical School, completed her neurology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and completed an aging and neurodegenerative disorders fellowship at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center.