Dr. Steven Arnold

Dr. Steven E. Arnold is Translational Neurology Head of the Interdisciplinary Brain Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 

After receiving his M.D. from Boston University, Dr. Arnold completed residency training in Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and residency training in Neurology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

He also completed fellowship training in Behavioral Neurology / Cognitive Neuroscience and was a post-doctoral associate in Neuroanatomy in Iowa. Dr. Arnold is board certified in both neurology and psychiatry.

After his training, Dr. Arnold joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he was Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology until his move to Massachusetts General Hospital in 2015. At Penn, he was Director of the Penn Memory Center, Associate Director and Clinical Core Leader of the Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center, Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Section in the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Cellular and Molecular Neuropathology Program in Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute on Aging.

Dr. Arnold has conducted longstanding research on neurodegenerative disease pathology and molecular biomarkers in relation to cognitive decline and psychiatric syndromes in late life and has led broad clinical and translational research programs. He has authored over 250 scientific articles, reviews and chapters.

Specific scientific interests include biomarkers for clinical trials in aging and dementias, metabolic and vascular risk factors for dementia and protective factors that account for cognitive resilience in aging.