12/24/2025
“It’s difficult to imagine that a child’s biggest dreams might actually come true … but Tucson neurologist Dr. Mateja de Leonni Stanonik’s youthful dreams are! She left her home country of Slovenia more than thirty years ago as a teenager in search of her vision: to study the brain and one day cure Alzheimer’s disease!
Today, Dr. Leonni is making her dreams come true at her advanced neurological practice in the Catalina Foothills. She said fate and higher powers were involved in her path through academic research, a journey that brought her to working with neuroscience gurus developing new Alzheimer’s disease treatments, some of which have recently been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to slow down the disease in its mild and early stages.”
✍🏼: Dr. Mateja de Leonni Stanonik