Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium

Project Evaluation Committee (PEC)

Christopher van Dyck, MD

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Christopher van Dyck serves as Co-Chair for the Protocol Evaluation Committee (PEC) and is a member of the Executive Committee for the ACTC. He is also Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience and Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit at the Yale School of Medicine, and the Project Director for the CT1812 study. Dr. van Dyck is a graduate of Yale College and Northwestern University Medical School. He completed his residency in psychiatry, fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, and research fellowship in neuroimaging before joining the faculty at Yale. Dr. van Dyck is a recognized leader in the neuroimaging and therapeutics of Alzheimer’s disease and healthy aging. He is also Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health, the pharmaceutical industry, and a number of private foundations and has authored more than 200 papers and reviews. Finally, Dr. van Dyck is extremely committed to advancing the cause of Alzheimer’s patients and their families on the local and national level. As Chairman of the Medical Scientific Advisory Committee for the Connecticut Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, he is intimately involved with local program development, advocacy, and education. He received the Alzheimer’s Association’s “Compassion and Cure” Award for 2005 and “Leader in Advancing Research” Award for 2017.

Ron Petersen, MD, PhD

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Dr. Ronald C. Petersen received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Minnesota and graduated from Mayo Medical School in 1980.  He completed an internship in Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center and returned to the Mayo Clinic to complete a residency in Neurology.  That was followed by a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Harvard University Medical School/Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Petersen joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1986 and became a Professor of Neurology in 1996.  In 2000 he was named the Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Mayo Clinic Distinguished Investigator in 2011. He is currently the Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging and has authored over 960 peer-reviewed articles on memory disorders, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Dr. Petersen is one of the recipients of the 2004 MetLife Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and the 2005 Potamkin Prize for Research in Picks, Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders of the American Academy of Neurology.  In 2012 he received the Khachaturian Award and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 from the Alzheimer’s Association.  In 2011 he was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve as the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Research, Care and Services for the National Alzheimer’s Disease Plan, and in 2014, he was appointed to the World Dementia Council by the UK government.