Jesse Mez, MD

Jesse Mez, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He is Associate Director of the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Co-Director of Clinical Research at the BU Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center, and co-leads the Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program Clinical Core. He is also an investigator in the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetic Consortium and the AD Sequencing Project. 

Dr. Mez’s research focuses on the genetic, neuropathological, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of Alzheimer’s disease, CTE, and related dementias. He studies the effects of traumatic brain injury and repetitive head impacts from sports and military service on dementia outcomes, clinicopathologic correlation in CTE, and the interaction of genetic and environmental factors with risk and resilience for neurodegenerative disease. He has authored over 180 publications and has leadership roles on five NIH funded projects. 

Dr. Mez earned his AB in Mathematics from Cornell University, MD from the University of Maryland, and MS in Biostatistics from Columbia University. He completed neurology residency at Harvard and fellowships at Columbia.