Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
Open Access

Jacob Mintzer

Biography

Dr. Mintzer is the director of the Roper St. Francis Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute (CBRI). He is also a professor in the department of Health Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Mintzer completed seven years of rabbinical studies in the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary (Conservative Judaism).  He completed his medical school at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He did his residency in psychiatry at Hadassah Hospital at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition to his residency while at the Hebrew University, he continued his research on regulation of microtubules activity in Alzheimer’s disease. He continued this research while completing his fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Dr. Mintzer initiated his academic career at the University of Miami, where he developed the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program and started his career as a clinical researcher in Alzheimer’s disease. He joined MUSC as an associate professor in 1991. At MUSC, he developed the Geriatric Psychiatry program which includes inpatient, outpatient, and consultation services as well as a fellowship program. Dr. Mintzer holds a masters in business administration from the Citadel Military College in South Carolina.

Research Interest

Clinical biotechnology,Alzheimer’s disease, Neurology,Psychiatry,Geriatric Psychiatry