David Phillip Bissig, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
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Locations and Contact
UC Davis Midtown Ambulatory Care Center
UC Davis Medical Group - Midtown Family Medicine
3160 Folsom Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: 916-734-5846
Philosophy of Care
I believe in offering comprehensive and compassionate care to my patients. This care often includes the patient's "team" of family, or friends, or caregivers. My goal is to empower my patients with a clear diagnosis and a personalized treatment plan.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Bissig is an adult neurologist. He offers care to all adult patients with neurological conditions, but has a special interest and expertise in cognitive neurology, which includes conditions like Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, Vascular Dementia, Parkinson's Dementia, Lewy Body Dementia, Progressive Aphasia, and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD).
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Bissig is interested in identifying those at high risk for cognitive impairment -- and eligible for early clinical intervention or participation in research -- by expanding clinic-based and hospital-based screening for impaired thinking and memory. In a separate body of research, he studies age-related changes in the eye, and how these changes are influenced by neurodegenerative diseases.
Division
Neurology
Undergraduate School
B.S., Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 2005
Medical School
M.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit MI 2014
Other School
Ph.D., Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit MI 2014
Internship
Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore MD 2014-2015
Residency
Neurology, UC Davis, Sacramento CA 2015-2018
Fellowship
Dementia, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland OR 2018-2020
NIH Butler-Williams Scholar, 2020
AAN Fellow Scholarship to the Annual Meeting, 2020
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Bissig+D%5BAuthor%5D&sort=date
Bissig D, Zhou CG, Le V, Bernard JT. Optical coherence tomography reveals light-dependent retinal responses in Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage. 2020 Oct 1;219:117022. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117022. Epub 2020 Jun 5. PMID:32512126.
Swor DE, Maas MB, Walia SS, Bissig D, Liotta EM, Naidech AM, Ng KL. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of methamphetamine-associated intracerebral hemorrhage. Neurology. 2019;93(1):e1-e7. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000007666. Epub 2019 May 29. PMID:31142634.
Bissig D, DeCarli CS. Global & Community Health: Brief in-hospital cognitive screening anticipates complex admissions and may detect dementia. Neurology. 2019 Mar 26;92(13):631-634. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000007176. PMID:30910941.
Bissig D, Manjunath R, Traylor BR, Richman DP, Ng KL. Acute stroke despite dabigatran anti-coagulation treated with idarucizumab and intravenous tissue plasminogen activator. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2017 Jun;26(6):e102-4. doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.12.037. Epub 2017 Apr 14. PMID:28416406.
Bissig D, Berkowitz BA. Testing the calcium hypothesis of aging in the rat hippocampus in vivo using manganese-enhanced MRI. Neurobiol Aging. 2014 Jun;35(6):1453-8. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2013.12.019. Epub 2013 Dec 25. PMID:24439958.
Bissig D, Goebel D, Berkowitz BA. Diminished vision in healthy aging is associated with increased retinal L-type voltage gated calcium channel ion infux. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56340. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056340. Epub 2013 Feb 14. PMID:23457553
Bissig D, Berkowitz BA. Light-dependent changes in outer retinal water diffusion in rats in vivo. Mol Vis. 2012;18:2561-77. Epub 2012 Oct 19. PMID:23129976
Bissig D, Berkowitz BA. Same-session functional assessment of rat retina and brain with manganese-enhanced MRI. Neuroimage. 2011 Oct;58(3):749-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.062. Epub 2011 Jul 1. PMID:21749922.
Bissig D, Berkowitz BA. Manganese-enhanced MRI of layer-specific activity in the visual cortex from awake and free-moving rats. NeuroImage. 2009 Feb 1;44(3):627-35. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.10.013. Epub 2008 Oct 29. PMID:19015035.
Bissig D, Lustig C. Who benefits from memory training? Psychol Sci. 2007 Aug;18(8):720-6. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01966.x. PMID:17680944