Ask the Experts: Neurology
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Expert Panel
- Carmel Armon, MD, MHS, Chief, Division of Neurology, Baystate Health Systems, Springfield, Massachusetts
Orly Avitzur, MD, MBA, Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, New Haven, Connecticut; Assistant Professor, New York Medical College, Department of Neurology, Valhalla, New York
Julien Bogousslavsky, MD, Professor and Chairman of Neurology, University of Lausanne and Chief of Department, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Martin R. Farlow, MD, Professor and Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Neurology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, and Co-Director of the Indiana University Alzheimer Disease Clinic, Indianapolis
Mark S. Freedman, MD, Professor of Neurology, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Director, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, Ottawa Hospital, Canada
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, and Director of the Memory Assessment Clinics and the clinical core of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at Boston University- Werner Hacke, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, and Director of Neurology, Kopfklinite Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Robert A. Hauser, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of South Florida, Tampa
- Omar Khan, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology and Medical Director, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
- William C. Koller, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Gregory Krauss, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
W. Vaughn McCall, MD, MS, Professor, Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina- Kikuo Ohno, MD, Professor and Chairman of Neurosurgical Dept., Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Chief of Neurosurgical Dept., Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Mark H. Pollack, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Director, Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts- Joel M Rothfeld, MD, PhD, Neurology Division Chair, Department of Medicine, Enloe Medical Center, Chico, California
Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, Professor of Neurology, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director, Jefferson Headache Center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
David Simpson, MD, Professor of Neurology, Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories, Director, Neuro-AIDS Program, Mount Sinai Medical Center- James Tetrud, MD, The Parkinson's Institute, Sunnyvale, California; Direcot, Movement Disorders Treatment Center, Portola Valley, California
Lynn R. Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM, Medical Director, Lifetree Clinical Research and Pain Clinic, Salt Lake City, Utah