Mark W. Bondi, PhD, Recipient of 2016 Alzheimer Award.

The Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD) is pleased to announce that Mark W. Bondi, PhD, ABPP/CN, Prtofessor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego and Director of the Neuropsychological Assessment Unit at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2016 Alzheimer Award presented by the journal in recognition of his outstanding work on the development of a novel and promising method of staging preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) based on number of abnormal biomarkers that is predictive of progression to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD. The winning paper is “Subtle Cognitive Decline and Biomarker Staging in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease” [1]. This yearly award is made possible by support from the Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation (http://www.alzheimersprevention.org/) and IOS Press.