Alexander Frolov, M.D.

Joined UT Southwestern: 2021

Clinical Interests: He specializes in memory and other cognitive disorders, and also sees general neurology patients both at UT Southwestern and Parkland Hospital. Dr. Frolov is a clinician educator with a focus on behavioral and cognitive neurology. He splits his time between the Memory Disorders Clinic at UT Southwestern, the General Neurology Clinic at UT Southwestern, and supervising resident physicians in the Neurology Clinic at Parkland Hospital. Dr. Frolov sees patients with a broad array of cognitive and neurologic concerns, including memory loss, language changes, and dementias of many types, inclduing Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, and frontotemporal dementia, among others. His clinical and clinical research interests include atypical variants of Alzheimer's disease, rapidly progressive dementia, and patient education.

Trainee Education: His academic interests include resident and medical student education, curriculum development, and medical humanities.

For residents, he leads the Art of Neurology Series. 

He leads two courses for 4th-year medical students: the "Brain and Behavior" course (co-hosted by Psych-SIG) and the "Frontiers in Medicine" course.

Background: Dr. Frolov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia but moved around a lot in his childhood, ultimately completing his undergraduate education at Southern Methodist University and earning his MD from the McGovern Medical School at the UT Health Science Center in Houston. He started his training in neurology at the University of Colorado in Denver and completed it at Stanford University, relocating to the Bay Area to be closer to his wife, who was at the time training there as well. He stayed on at Stanford for advanced training in behavioral neurology, and thereafter began his practice at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He relocated to Dallas, TX in 2021.