Dr. Dennis W. Choi
Dennis W. Choi, MD, PhD
Director, Emory Neuroscience Center
Vice President of Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Dr. Dennis W. Choi is a neuroscientist renowned for his groundbreaking research on brain and spinal cord injury. In addition to directing the Emory Neuroscience Center in the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, he is Executive Director of the Neuroscience, Human Nature, and Society Initiative within the Emory University strategic plan.
A former president of the Society for Neuroscience, Dr. Choi served as head of the Neurology Department at Washington University Medical School from 1991 until 2001 and as neurologist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He established and directed the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury (now the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders) and directed the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology.
From 2001 until 2006 Dr. Choi was executive vice president for neuroscience at Merck Research Labs, leaving to join Boston University, where he was a professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics before joining Emory University School of Medicine in 2007 as a Professor in the Department of Neurology.
Dr. Choi is a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the executive committee of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research. He is a former vice president of the American Neurological Association.
He received MD and PhD degrees in 1978 from Harvard University and the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. After completing residency and fellowship training in neurology at Harvard, he joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he began his ongoing research into the mechanisms of neuronal cell death and the underlying mechanisms of brain and spinal cord injury. His research has been recognized by several awards, including the Silvio O. Conte Decade of the Brain Award, the Christopher Reeve Research Medal, and the Ho-Am Prize in Medical Science.
Dr. Choi has served on numerous scientific and advisory boards, including the National Academy of Sciences Board on Life Sciences, advisory committees to the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, and as chairman of the U.S./Canada Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization. He has been a member of multiple editorial boards, including founding co-editorship of the journal, Neurobiology of Disease.
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