Saket Saxena, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and Staff at the Center for Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Co-Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Level 1 Geriatric Emergency room. Dr. Saket Saxena has an extensive background in managing older adults with complex medical needs and has worked in the US and Canada in various capacities. Dr. Saxena had developed best practices to screen older patients for cognitive impairment and implemented uniform cognitive screening protocols throughout Cleveland Clinic Primary Care Institute. He has multiple foundational and NIH/A grants to improve the care of older adults in primary care and the Emergency Department. He has publications in the fields of  Cognition, Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, and Interventional Cardiology.

He is a chair of, the American Geriatric Society Geriatric Emergency Department Special Interest Group and a member of The Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART) committee on Technology and Dementia.