Neurology

• Chief, Division of Cell and Gene Therapy
• Glenn-Zutes Chair in Biology of the Aging Brain
• Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics

• B.A., Biology and Psychology summa cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
• M.D., Cornell University Medical College, 1983
• Ph.D., Cellular Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1984
• Residency, Cornell Medical Center-New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Medicine, 1984-85; Neurology, 1985-88; Chief Resident in Neurology, 1987-88

• Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, 1985
• Medical Licensure, The State of New York, 1985
• Board Certification in Neurology, American Academy of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1989

• 2003- present, Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
• 2001-2003, Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College
• 1997-2003, Senior Attending Neurologist, The New York Presbyterian Hospital
• 1997-2001, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College
• 1997, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience (with tenure), Cornell Medical College
• 1992-1997, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and Associate Attending Neurologist, The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center
• 1988-1992, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Assistant Attending Neurologist
  The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center

Awards/Fellowships

• Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, NINDS, 2002-2009
• Irma T. Hirschl Career Scientist Award, 1993-97
• FIRST Award, NIH/NINDS, 1992-97
• Clinical Investigator Development Award, NIH/NINDS, 1988-93
• Cornell Scholar in Biomedical Science, 1988-91
• Medical Scientist Training Program trainee, USPHS, 1978-84
• Grass Foundation Fellowship, 1978
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
• Mayor's Scholar, City of Philadelphia, 1974-78
• Senatorial Scholar, State of Pennsylvania, 1974-78
• Benjamin Franklin National Scholar, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1974-78

• American Society for Clinical Investigation (elected 2001)
• American Neurological Association (elected 1995)
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Society for Cell Biology
• American Society for Gene Therapy
• Association for Nervous and Mental Diseases
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
  Society for Neuroscience

• 1996 NIH/NINDS Broad agency/RFP 96-07 review panel
• 1997 NINDS Neuro-B2 review committee, ad hoc
• 1998 NINDS/SBIA review committee, ad hoc
• 1999 NINDS Neural Stem Cell advisory committee
• 2000 NINDS Special Emphasis Panel ZNS1-L01, ad hoc
• 2000 FDA Stem Cell/Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee, panel member
• 2001 NHLBI SRG (Stem Cell Plasticity)
• 2001 NINDS MDCN-7
• 2002 NINDS MDCN-6
• 2002 NIMH SRG
• 2003 NINDS MDCN-6
• 2003 NINDS SRG
• 2004 NIA SRG

• Society for Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Disease workshop coordinator, 2002
• American Society for Gene Therapy, Neural Disorders committee, 2001-2005
• NY Academy of Medicine/Ellsberg Neurosurgery fellowship, executive committee, 2001-2005
• Association for Nervous and Mental Diseases (ARNMD), annual meeting president, 2001
• Children’s Neurobiological Solutions, Boston, MA (scientific advisory board)
• Wellcome Trust, England, grant reviewer (annual)
• Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, grant reviewer (annual)
• Israel-US Binational Trust, Tel-Aviv, grant reviewer (annual)
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society, NYC, grant reviewer (ad hoc)
• Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, NJ, grant reviewer (ad hoc)

• Merck, Inc., Terlings Park, UK; 2003- (Merck Neuroscience Research labs; consultant/sponsored research)
• Q Therapeutics, Salt Lake City, UT; 2003- (scientific advisory board; co-founder)
• Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ; 2001-2003 (consultant/sponsored research)
• Neuronyx, Inc., Malvern, PA; 2001-2002 (consultant/sponsored research)