Dr. Steven Chao received his MD and PhD degrees at Chicago Medical School with NIH sponsorship. His graduate studies in the laboratory of Dr. Marina Wolf focused on mechanisms of neuronal plasticity. Dr. Chao completed a medical internship at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and a neurology residency at Stanford University Hospital.

Dr. Chao is currently a neurologist at the Memory and Aging Center where he is active in patient evaluation and management. His research interests focus on the early detection and progression of Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and related disorders. He actively participates in our Chinese outreach program seeing patients at San Francisco Chinatown clinics every week.

趙壯志醫生

腦部神經專科臨床進修醫生

趙壯志醫生在芝加哥醫學院獲得臨床醫學及神經學博士雙學位﹐並得到美國健康研究院(National Institute of Health) 的支持。趙醫生在攻讀博士學位時﹐跟芝加哥醫學院 Marina Wolf 博士研究神經可塑性的機製。趙醫生在Santa Clara Valley 醫學中心 內科實習之後到史丹福大學醫院(Stanford University Hospital）完成神經科住院醫生的實習。

趙醫生現在加入UCSF記憶力研究及治療中心擔任腦部神經專科臨床進修醫生。他盡力與病人進行全面性的神經檢查和推廣教育有關失智癥的知識。他在本中心的研究，主要是針對阿茲海默癥 (Alzheimer’s Disease), 額顳葉型失智癥(Frontotemporal Dementia) 和其他失智癥的早期診斷及治療。他是本中心擴展計劃中的一位腦部神經醫生﹐每星期會到三藩市唐人街為華裔病人服務。