Dr. Andreas Monsch

Andreas U. Monsch studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1991. From 1991-1994, he was employed at the University of California, San Diego (USA), one of the best Alzheimer’ disease research centers in the world at the time. From 1994-2002, he worked as head of research at the Memory Clinic of the Geriatric University Hospital in Basel. In 2001 he received his habilitation and was promoted to Titular Professor of Psychology at the University of Basel in 2003. Since 2002, the neuropsychologist has been in charge of one of the largest memory clinics in Switzerland, which has been located since 2016 in the Felix Platter Hospital, Basel, which is now called University Department of Geriatric Medicine FELIX PLATTER. Prof. Monsch’s research and teaching focus on “Early diagnosis of dementia” and “Rare causes of dementia”. He has published over 150 papers and book chapters to date.