Dr. Nathaniel Chin joins Wisconsin ADRC

Nathaniel Chin, MD, joined the Wisconsin ADRC on March 1, 2017. Dr. Chin is an assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology within the UW Department of Medicine. Dr. Chin will see patients in the UW Health Memory Clinic in Madison three half-days per week and conduct health services research related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia in the Wisconsin ADRC.

Dr. Chin grew up in Watertown, Wisconsin, and earned undergraduate and medical degrees from UW-Madison. He completed an internal medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, and it was during this time that Dr. Chin’s father was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. His father’s condition influenced the way he began to look at his profession, and Dr. Chin decided to pursue a career as a geriatrician and scientist focused on AD and dementia. Dr. Chin completed a one-year geriatrics fellowship and a six-month dementia fellowship at the UW.