Elaine R Peskind, M.D.

University of Washington School of Medicine

Contact Information

Elaine R Peskind, M.D.
Seattle, United States

Professional Information

Friends of Alzheimer's Research Professor of Psychiatry
University of Washington School of Medicine

Education

BS with HIgh Honors, Biology, CA State College San Bernardino 1975 MS, Zoology, Washington State University, 1978 MD with Honors, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1986

Bio

Elaine Peskind, MD, is Co-Director of the VA VISN 20 (Northwest Network) Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC). She is also the Friends of Alzheimer’s Research Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine and is Associate Director of the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her research over the past 30 years has addressed cognitive and behavioral problems and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers in neurodegenerative dementing disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. More recently, Dr. Peskind’s research has focused on combat trauma posttraumatic stress disorder and the clinical phenomenology as well as neuroimaging and CSF biomarkers of neurodegeneration in combat blast concussion mild traumatic brain injury and in Gulf War Veterans Illness. She continues to conduct single site as well as multi-site large scale studies of CSF biomarkers and pharmacological treatment trials for behavioral disorders and traumatic brain injury.