Gary W. Small MD

Gary W. Small, MD, is the Chair of Psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center and serves as Vice President, Behavioral Health Physician-in-Chief, and the H. Hovnanian Family Foundation Chair at Hackensack Meridian Health. He is also Professor and Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Hackensack, New Jersey.

Dr. Small received his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Children's Hospital and Adult Medical Center in San Francisco followed by a clinical fellowship in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He then completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at David Geffen School of Medicine at the The University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Small is an internationally renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist and expert on brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia prevention. He has authored more than 500 scholarly articles and more than a dozen popular books, including the international best seller, The Memory Bible. His memory training and healthy aging lifestyle programs are available throughout the US, and he has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, London Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, AARP Magazine, CNN, ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. In addition, NJBIZ, New Jersey’s leading business journal, placed him among the top 50 healthcare influencers in the state, and Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s top 50 innovators in science and technology.