Sanjay Asthana, MD
sa@medicine.wisc.edu
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Administrative assistant
Alicia L. Weich
608-265-5862
alweich@medicine.wisc.edu
Sanjay Asthana, MD, is the associate dean for gerontology and the Duncan G. and Lottie H. Ballantine Chair in Geriatrics and professor. He is head of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in the Department of Medicine.
Asthana is widely recognized for his research in the neuroendocrinology of Alzheimer’s disease and has published extensively in the field of hormones and cognition.
He is the director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), which was formally established in 2009 with funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). The center was the first geriatric-based program in the country to earn an Alzheimer’s center designation by the NIH. Its mission is to provide infrastructure, services and support to Alzheimer’s related research projects across campus.
Asthana earned his medical degree from the University of Delhi in India and completed his residency at the University of Saskatchewan School of Medicine in Saskatchewan, Canada, and a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also completed a three-year research fellowship in Alzheimer’s disease at the Laboratory of Neurosciences of the NIA/NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. He has been part of the UW–Madison faculty since 2001.