Scott Mackin, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Psychiatry Co-Investigator for Brain Health Registry University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Mackin is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine where he has served as Principal Investigator for six grants from the National Institutes of Health. His research work has focused on a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, dementia, late life depression, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Mackin has spearheaded pioneering work in the assessment of cognitive functioning pre and post treatment, and has closely examined the neuropsychiatric symptoms of underlying neurodegenerative diseases with the aim of more fully understanding the range of symptoms that can arise from diseases like Alzheimer’s or dementia.