Eric G. Tangalos, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD

Eric G. Tangalos, MD, FACP, AGSF, CMD, is professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He was previously chair of primary care internal medicine from 1997 to 2006.

Dr Tangalos received his undergraduate training at the University of Michigan, is a graduate of the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, and was a resident and fellow in internal medicine at Mayo.

He is past president of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and is a fellow and past governor of the American College of Physicians. He is also past director of the American Geriatrics Society and serves on their Health in Aging Foundation. For 8 years, he served on the national board of the Alzheimer’s Association and was a member of their executive committee. Dr Tangalos also served as chair of the Omnicare National P&T Committee for 20 years. He was a founding board member of the American Telemedicine Association, and the seeds of those labors played an important role during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

He was medical director at Samaritan Bethany from 1981 until his retirement from Mayo in 2019. His certification as a medical director is current, and he serves as a multifacility medical director for the Mayo Clinic Health System in southeast Minnesota. He was also recredentialed by Mayo for continuing service to both the Rochester campus and the Austin, MN, campus, with direct patient care and resident and student supervision.

Dr Tangalos has been an investigator with the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center since 1987. He is also active with the Alzheimer’s Association as course director for a Project ECHO seminar series (now in its 9th offering).