He is the Director of the Katherine and Benjamin Kagan Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Development Program and the leader of the Recruitment and Education Core of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at UCLA. He is also co-Principal Investigator of the Network for Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT) at UCLA. Dr. Grill earned his doctorate in Neuroscience in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His research is focused on clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease.