Dr. Ian Neel, MD

Dr. Ian Neel is a geriatrician and internist who practices with UC San Diego Health in San Diego and La Jolla, California. He earned his medical degree at UC San Diego School of Medicine, completed internal medicine residency there, and finished a geriatric medicine fellowship at UC San Diego in 2015-2016. Public listings show board certification in both internal medicine and geriatric medicine.

His listed clinical focus includes dementia, memory disorders, eldercare, and senior health. He serves as clinical lead and medical director of the UC San Diego Geriatric Medicine Consult Service, is the primary geriatric medicine consultant to the UC San Diego Senior Behavioral Health unit, and consults with the Brain Health and Memory Disorders program. He holds an associate clinical professor appointment at UC San Diego School of Medicine and sees patients at UC San Diego Health's La Jolla, Hillcrest, and East Campus Medical Centers.

Much of his published and community work centers on detecting and managing dementia. He was corresponding author on a study reporting that training primary care clinicians improves dementia detection, and he co-chairs the San Diego Alzheimer's Project. He has also published a case report in the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, co-written a book chapter on care for older homeless patients with diabetes, and presented abstracts at American Geriatrics Society national conferences.

In the CMS Open Payments database for 2021 through 2025, no industry payments are recorded for him (0 records, $0 total). Payments from drug and device companies are common and legal; in his case none are reported.