Lea T. Grinberg-Korczyn, M.D., Ph.D.

Lea T. Grinberg, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified neuropathologist and neuroscientist specializing in neurodegenerative diseases. She is a Senior Associate Consultant in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Neurosciences at Mayo Clinic. Her clinical and academic focus is on the diagnosis and investigation of dementia, with particular interest in early disease stages, selective vulnerability, and pathological heterogeneity.

Dr. Grinberg earned her medical degree from the Faculdade de Medicina da Santa Casa de São Paulo in Brazil. She completed her residency in pathology and Ph.D. in neuropathology at the University of São Paulo, followed by a fellowship in aging neuropathology at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, she spent 16 years at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was a Professor of Neurology and Pathology and held the John Douglas French Foundation Alzheimer's Disease Endowed Chair.

Her research contributions include leading or co-leading several initiatives to update diagnostic criteria in neurodegenerative diseases, describing new pathological entities, and performing thousands of diagnoses, from asymptomatic disease to extremely rare conditions. Dr. Grinberg is a founding member and executive board member of the Biobank for Aging Studies at the University of São Paulo, co-led the Neurodegenerative Disease Brain Bank at UCSF, and now leads a major initiative to modernize the Department of Neurosciences' Brain Bank at Mayo Clinic.