About True Mind

Ezekiel Gonzalez-Fernandez, MD, PhD

Physician-scientist

Ezekiel Gonzalez-Fernandez, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist with clinical training in neurology and a research focus on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. He completed the combined MD/PhD clinician-scientist training program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, Mississippi, as a Conerly Scholar, then stayed at UMMC for an internship in internal medicine and residency training in adult neurology, where he served as a Chief Resident.

His research asks how the health of the brain's blood vessels shapes the health of the brain itself. With support from an NIH F30 National Research Service Award, the National Institute on Aging, and the American Heart Association, he has studied mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease and vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID). His peer-reviewed work on hypertension, the vasoactive lipid 20-HETE, and its receptor GPR75 has helped identify a mechanism by which chronic high blood pressure can promote neuroinflammation and dementia.

He built True Mind while he was a neurology resident, to give his patients, and anyone else worried about dementia, a clear view of the risk factors they can still change.

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