David Bennett (neurologist)

David A Bennett is a neurologist, Director of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (RADC), and the Robert C Borwell Professor of Neurology at Rush University Medical Center. Bennett is also Visiting Professor, Instituto de Assistencia Medica ao Servidor Publico Estadual (IAMSPE), São Paulo, Brazil.

Bennett was the recipient of the 2018 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases "in recognition of methods he developed with colleagues to measure de novo synthesis of amyloid-beta (Abeta)."

Bennett is the principal investigator of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) funded Religious Orders Study (ROS) and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP). Biospecimens and data from ROS and MAP are used as part of the NIH funded Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Alzheimer's Disease (AMP-AD). He also leads the Pathology Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Study (PARDoS) in the state of Sao Paulo Brazil.