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

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

Manager of Program Operations
Rado Lee

(206) 616-6264
radolee@uw.edu

Research and consulting group

Associate Director and Epidemiologist
Charles Mock, MD, PhD, FACS

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

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

Co-investigator and Radiologist
Dean K. Shibata, MD

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

Associate Director
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, PhD

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, MPH

(206) 616-6208
mateylan@uw.edu

Research Scientist
Kathryn Gauthreaux, MS

(206) 616-5647
kgaut@uw.edu

Research Consultant
Zack Miller, BS

(206) 616-6263
zmiller3@uw.edu

Research Scientist
Jessica Culhane, BS

(206) 543-8637
culhane@uw.edu

Data and computing group

Associate Director
Kari A. Stephens, PhD

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