About NACC

The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center was established in 1999 by the National Institute on Aging/NIH to facilitate collaborative research. Using data collected from NIA-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRCs) across the United States, NACC has developed and maintains a large relational database of standardized clinical and neuropathological research data. In partnership with the Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), the National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (NCRAD), and the NIA Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS), NACC provides a valuable resource for both exploratory and explanatory Alzheimer's disease research. NACC data are freely available to all researchers.

NACC is located in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington in Seattle and funded by NIA/NIH cooperative grant U01 AG016976.

Administrative group

Principal Investigator/Director
Walter A. Kukull, PhD
He/Him

Professor, Epidemiology
(206) 543-4560, (206) 616-1765, kukull@uw.edu

Manager of Program Operations
Rado Lee
She/Her

(206) 616-6264, radolee@uw.edu

Research and consulting group

Associate Director and Epidemiologist
Charles Mock, MD, PhD, FACS
He/Him

Professor, Epidemiology,
Global Health, Surgery
(206) 543-6944, cmock@uw.edu

Associate Director and Biostatistician
X.H. Andrew Zhou, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics
(206) 543-8634, azhou@uw.edu

Co-investigator and Neurologist
W.T. Longstreth, Jr., MD, MPH
He/Him

Professor, Neurology
(206) 221-3251, wl@uw.edu

Co-investigator and Radiologist
Dean K. Shibata, MD
He/Him

Professor, Radiology
(206) 543-8637, shibatad@uw.edu

Associate Director
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, PhD
He/Him

Associate Professor, Biostatistics
(206) 685-9177, kcgchan@uw.edu

Co-investigator and Statistician
Yen-Chi Chen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Statistics
(206) 543-6944, yenchic@uw.edu

Research & Consulting Manager
Merilee A. Teylan, MPA, MPH
She/They

(206) 616-6208, mateylan@uw.edu

Research Scientist
Kathryn Gauthreaux, MS
She/Her

(206) 616-5647, kgaut@uw.edu

Research Consultant
Zack Miller, BS
He/Him

(206) 616-6263, zmiller3@uw.edu

Research Scientist
Jessica Culhane, MS
She/Her

(206) 616-0254, culhane@uw.edu

Data and computing group

Associate Director
Kari A. Stephens, PhD
She/Her

Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Research Informatics, Department of Family Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
(206) 221-0349, kstephen@uw.edu