Joseph Rogers

Joseph Rogers, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Health Sciences Section at SRI International. In this role, Rogers manages research programs in the areas of addiction, brain imaging, sleep, and neurologic and metabolic diseases.

Rogers is best known for showing that inflammatory responses occur in almost all major age-related brain disorders and cause substantial damage. Before joining SRI, Rogers served as founder and president of the Sun Health Research Institute (acquired by Banner Health System). Under his leadership, the institute became internationally recognized for its research on age-related neurologic diseases, and is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded National Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

He has served on numerous boards, including the American Geriatrics Society, Arizona Alzheimer's Association, NIH Working Group on Neuroimmunology, Arizona Governor's Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease, Arizona Legislative Task Force on Stem Cell Research, and the Pacific Alzheimer’s Institute. A reviewer and editorial board member for numerous scientific journals, Rogers has more than 150 scientific publications. In addition, his research on Alzheimer’s disease has been continuously funded by the NIH for the last 25 years. Rogers also holds patents related to the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

He has received many awards for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from Arizona Business Magazine, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Phoenix Business Journal, and a Lifetime Achievement Award, a Zenith Award, and a Faculty Scholar Award from the national Alzheimer’s Association. Rogers received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, his B.A. from Emory University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute.