Email: mrafii@ucsd.edu Phone: 858-246-1300 Fax: 858-657-8552
Mailing Address: 9500 Gilman Drive #0949 La Jolla, CA 92093-0949
Dr. Rafii is Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at UC San Diego Perlman Ambulatory Care Center in La Jolla, and Assistant Professor of Neurosciences at UC San Diego.
He is also Associate Medical Director of the NIH-funded Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study and Attending Neurologist at the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. He specializes in cognitive disorders, including dementias, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Rafii also directs the Adult Down Syndrome Clinic. He is Clinical Director of the UCSD Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Center and serves as Principal Investigator on numerous clinical studies.
Dr. Rafii also serves on the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices of the American Academy of Developmental Disorders.
As Assistant Director of the Neurology Residency Program, Dr. Rafii is involved in the training of the next generation of neurologists. He is author of First Aid for the Neurology Boards, one of the most widely read books in preparing for the neurology boards.
He received his MD and PhD from Brown University School of Medicine and conducted neurogenetics research at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rafii went on to complete his neurology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was chief resident. He then completed a fellowship in Dementia and Cognitive Disorders at UC San Diego.
See a video discussion on memory disorders and Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Rafii and William Mobley, chair of the Department of Neurosciences.