Dennis W. Choi, MD, PhD
Executive Director, Comprehensive Neurosciences Initiative, Professor of Neurology, Biology, and Pharmacology, Emory University

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Dennis Choi received the MD degree from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Program, as well as a PhD degree in Pharmacology and neurology residency/fellowship training from Harvard, before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1983. In 1991, he went to St. Louis to be the Jones Professor and Head of Neurology at Washington University, Neurologist-in-Chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Director of the McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology and the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury. At the end of 2001 he joined Merck Research Labs as Executive Vice-President for Neuroscience, leaving in 2006 to accept appointments at Boston University as Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and at Oxford University as Visiting Professor in Clinical Neuroscience. In 2007 he joined Emory University as Executive Director of the university’s Neuroscience Initiative.  He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Neuroscience Forum, the Executive Committee of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research, and the visiting committee advising the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology Program. Past service has included the National Academy of Science’s Board on Life Sciences, multiple editorial boards (including the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, and founding co-editorship of Neurobiology of Disease) and advisory boards, presidency of the Society for Neuroscience, chairmanship of the US National Committee to the International Brain Research Organization, and vice-presidency of the American Neurological Association. His research on mechanisms of brain or spinal cord injury has been recognized by several awards.