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is Chairman of the Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, and Neurologist-in-Chief, Yale-New Haven Hospital. He also is founder and Director of the PVA/EPVA Neuroscience Research Center. Dr. Waxman is internationally recognized for elucidating the molecular architecture of nerve fibers and glial cells, and the mechanisms of injury to nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. He has published over 400 scientific papers and has authored three books on neuroscience. He is Editor of The Neuroscientist, Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurological Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. Dr. Waxman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; and has served on the Advisory Boards of the American Paralysis Association and the Spinal Cord Research Foundation. He graduated from Harvard College and received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. | 