Patrick A. Griffith, MD, FAAN
Professor and Chair

Department of Neurology

(615) 327-6565
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1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
Old Hospital
Room 509
Nashville, TN  37208

pgriffith@mmc.edu

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Howard University, Washington DC, MD

Dr. Griffith’s research has focused on the diagnosis, management and treatment of dementia. Specific research areas have included vascular dementia and the prevention of strokes in African Americans.

Patrick A. Griffith, MD, Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, Robert Goldman, PhD, Jennifer Payne-Parrish, PhD, Sharon Richardson, PhD. Open-label trial of donepezil in African Americans with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. J Natl Med Assoc. 2006;98:1590-1597.

Robert Green, MD, MPH; L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD; Alex Kurz, MD; Sandord Auerbach, MD; Rodney Go, PhD; Dessa Sadovnick, PhD; Ranjan Duara, MD; Walter Kukull, PhD; Helena Chui, MD; Timi Edeki, MD. PhD; Patrick Griffith, MD; et al. Depression as a Risk Factor for Alzheimer Disease. The Mirage Study. Arch Neurol. May 2003; 60: 753-759.

Obafemi Okuwobi, MD, Folashade Omoile, MD and Patrick Griffith, MD; et al. An Overiew of Bell’s Palsy, Including the Efficacy of Drug Therapies. Family Practice Recertification, Vol 25, No. 2, March 2003, pgs. 42-54.

Neill R. Graff-Radford, MD; Robert C. Green, MD, MPH; Rodney C. P. Go, PhD; Michael L. Hutton, PhD; Timi Edeki, MD. PhD; David Bachman, MD; Jennifer L. Adamson, PhD; Patrick Griffith, MD; et al. Association Between Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Alzheimer Disease in African American Subjects. Arch Neurol . 2002;59:594-600.

Green R, Cupples L, Go R, Benke K, Edeki T, Griffith P, et al. Risk of Dementia Among White and African American Relatives of Patients With Alzheimer Disease. JAMA. 2002;287:329-336.

Robert C. Green, L. Adrienne Cupples, Rodney Go, Timi Edeki, Patrick Griffith, et al. Risk of Dementia Among White and African American Relatives of Alzheimer’s Disease. A113 Neurology 56 April 2001 (Suppl 3).

Griffith, P & Espino, D. Making the Diagnosis, in Diagnosis, Management and Treatment of Dementia: A Practical Guide for Primary Care Physicians. AMA AA96:99-1119:30M: 10/99

Charles P, Scherokman B, Joxefowicz R, and the American Academy of Neurology Undergraduate Subcommittee (Mancall E, Anderson D, Glick T, Walker H, Hopkins L, Cannard K, Griffith P, Miller J). How Much Neurology Should a Medical Student Learn? Acad, Med. 1999;74:23-26

Gorelick PB, Griffith P: Late Sequelae of Cerebrovascular Disease in African Americans: Vascular Dementia: Gillum RF, Gorelick PB, Cooper E, eds. Stroke in Blacks: A Guide to Management and Prevention. Basel Switzerland: Karger AG 1999:300;188-197.

Griffith, P.A. "Brain Death and the Neurologist." Atlanta Medicine, 1995; 31-32

Scherokman, B., Cannard, K., Miller, J.Q., and the American Academy of Neurology Undergraduate Education Subcommittee (D. Anthony, P. Griffith, F. Murphy, R. Jose Fowicz, J. Swanson and H.K. Walker). "What Should a Graduating Medical Student Know About Neurology?" Neurology 1994; 44: 1170-1176.

Jackson, R., Margolis, S. Creary, L., Brown, P., Blyden, G., Evans, S., Griffith, P. et al "A Successful Program to Rapidly Increase the Number of HIV/AIDS Researchers. VIth International Conference on AIDS in Africa, Dakar, Senegal, 16-19, December, 1991. Oral Presentation.

Jackson, R.E., Margolis, S., Griffith, P., et. al. Development of a unique AIDS consortium center to address HIV/AIDS in minority community in the U.S. Vth International Conference on AIDS in Africa, Kinshasa, Zaire, 10-12, October, 1990. Abstract, W.P.C. 11, Page 104.

Jackson, R.E., Haynes, A. and Griffith, P.A., AIDS - AMPHS Consortium Proposal, Poster, International Conference on AIDS, June, 1989, Montreal, Canada.

Griffith, P. A., and Karp, H., "Lorazepam in Therapy for Status Epilepticus”, Letter to the Editor, Annals of Neurology, Volume 7, No. 5, p. 493, May, 1980.

"Headaches," Chapter 85, 2nd Edition, Clinical Methods, Walker, K., Hurst, Hall and Griffith, P.A., 1980.

Young, R.C., Jr. and Griffith, P.A., "Tuberculosis Case-Finding in the Seventies", Journal of the National Medical Association, November, 1971, Vol. 63, No. 6, pp. 432-435.