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Greg Sachs, M.D.
Dr. Greg Sachs

Greg A. Sachs, MD is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at IU and Research Scientist in the IU Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute. He recently arrived from the University of Chicago where he had been the founding Chief of the Section of Geriatrics and Co-Director of the Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders (The Memory Center). Dr. Sachs’s research and writing have focused on ethical issues in geriatrics, especially ethical issues involved in research on people with dementia and care at the end of life. Dr. Sachs has been the recipient of grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation, Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Alzheimer’s Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Retirement Research Foundation, Greenwall Foundation and the National Institute of Aging. His work has been published in leading journals such as JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Neurology and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Sachs has received the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and was a Medical Honoree of the national Alzheimer’s Association. Dr. Sachs currently serves on the Board of Directors of AGS, several editorial boards, and as Chair of the Ethics Advisory Panel of the Alzheimer’s Association. He has served as the mentor or co-mentor for multiple junior faculty on their own career development grants including recipients of Beeson grants, Jahnigen awards, Williams Scholars, and K01 and K23 grants.