Stephen G. Waxman, M.D., Ph.D.

Stephen Waxman, M.D., Ph.D. exemplifies the bridge between basic research and clinical medicine. He has served as Professor and Chairman of Neurology at Yale since 1986 and is the founding director of the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center, a collaboration of the Paralyzed Veterans of America and United Spinal Association with Yale University, located at the VA Medical Center in West Haven, CT. Dr. Waxman is also Professor of Neurobiology and Pharmacology at Yale, and Visiting Professor of Neurology, Anatomy and Biology at University College London and the Institute of Neurology, London. He is Co-Director of the Yale-London Collaboration on CNS Repair.

Dr. Waxman received his BA from Harvard, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees (1970, 1972) from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following Neurology Residency at Boston City Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, MIT, and Stanford Medical School prior to moving to Yale in 1986. Dr.Waxman has received international recognition for his research, which focuses molecular techniques on the brain and spinal cord, with the goal of finding new therapies for neurological disorders such as spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Waxman has published more than 400 scientific papers, has authored the clinical text Spinal Cord Compression, and has edited six books. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals including Brain, Annals of Neurology, Trends in Neurosciences, Brain Research, and Muscle and Nerve, and he has trained more than one hundred and fifty neurologists and neuroscientists who work at institutions around the world.

A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Waxman has served on numerous advisory boards and councils, including the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NINDS. He is an Established Investigator of the National MS Society. His many awards include the Tuve Award from NIH, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Dystel Prize from the National MS Society, and the Wartenberg Award from the American Academy of Neurology.