Chad A Dickey, PhD

Associate Professor, Chad Dickey joined the faculty at the University of South Florida Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute in Tampa, FL, in September 2008. Dickey earned his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida under the direction of Dr. David Morgan in 2004. He completed post-doctoral training at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, under the direction of Dr. Michael Hutton, an expert in the field of Alzheimer’s disease genetics. He was a recipient of a New Investigator Award from the Alzheimer’s Association and a Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation/AFAR New Investigator Award in Alzheimer's Disease. Dickey conducted two research projects for the Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy to study the mechanisms behind this particular form of hereditary dementia. He lives in the Carrollwood area of Tampa with his wife Adria and his two sons, Luke and Jacob.