Professional Background
Ryan Townley, M.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center and is the director of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship. He is also the Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Consortium Associate Director and Primary Investigator at the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Dr. Townley is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is UCNS certified in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. Before joining the KU Medical Center faculty in August 2019, he completed a two-year cognitive-behavioral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education, where he also finished his neurology residency and an internal medicine internship. He graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where he earned the 2013 Dewey K. Ziegler Award for Excellence in Neurology presented by the KU Department of Neurology and was honored with the American Academy of Neurology's Outstanding Neurology Medical Student Award. Prior to medical school, he earned a bachelor of science in neurobiology from the University of Kansas.
- BS, Neurobiology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- MD, Medical Doctor, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
- Other, Neurology, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, MN
- Other, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Rochester, MN
- ABPN Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Medical License, Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
- UCNS Certified in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry , United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties
- International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment, Member, 2017 - Present
- American Academy of Neurology, Member, 2015 - Present
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