Kaancan Deniz, MD

Kaan grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, and finished medical school at Istanbul University. Following medical school, he pursued a research fellowship at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville where he focused on Alzheimer’s disease genetics, transcriptomics, and blood-based biomarkers with a focus on underrepresented minorities. He did his neurology residency at the University of Iowa, being one of the chief residents in his final year of training. As a resident, he led a dementia clinic at the Iowa City VA healthcare system and was inspired by clinical questions brought by his patients. Kaan is primarily interested in neuropsychiatric syndromes in dementias, symptom-pathology correlation, improving diversity in clinical research, and biomarker development in neurodegeneration.