Dr. Brian R. Apatoff received his MD and PhD degrees from The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He did his medical training in Boston at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and then completed his neurology residency at The Neurological Institute of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident. He subsequently performed a National Multiple Sclerosis Society Research Fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and The Scripps Research Institute and Clinic. He is the recipient of a Clinical Investigator Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke. He is Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care and Research Center at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he is Clinical Attending and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience. Dr. Apatoff serves on the Clinical Advisory Committee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Steven L. Galetta, MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dr. Steven Galetta is currently the Van Meter Professor of Neurology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Division at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After earning his Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from the Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Galetta returned to Philadelphia where he completed his residency in neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then went on to complete a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida. Dr. Galetta is board certified in neurology and neuro-ophthalmology. Dr. Galetta is published in several top medical journals and has been named one of the "Best Doctors in America" on numerous occasions. He is a member of the American Neurologic Association, American Academy of Neurology, the Stroke Council, the Frank B. Walsh Society, and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society.

Jeffrey Greenstein, MD
Temple University School of Medicine, PA

Dr. Jeffrey Greenstein is currently Chairman and Professor of Neurology at Temple University School of Medicine and is the Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Greenstein received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and completed his residency in Neurology and his fellowship in Neuropathology at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Greenstein is board certified in Neurology.

Dr. Greenstein's research interests include the regulation of immune responses to self antigens to MS, functional neuroimaging of gait disorders, and experimental immunotherapy in multiple sclerosis. Dr. Greenstein is widely published in scientific and neurology journals and sits on the Board of Trustees of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Dina A. Jacobs, MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dr. Dina Jacobs is a Fellow in Multiple Sclerosis at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Jacobs received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her internship in Internal Medicine and her Neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania as well.

Her medical interests include Multiple Sclerosis, Neuro-ophthalmology, and Women's Health in Neurology. Prior to starting medical school, she worked in the field of Women's Health as a family planning and women's health counselor.

Frederick Munschauer, MD
State University of New York, Buffalo

Frederick E. Munschauer, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Internal Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo School of Medicine. Dr. Munschauer received his undergraduate education at Duke University and a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, he completed residency programs in internal medicine and neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Munschauer went on to complete fellowship training in neurologic intensive care at the National Hospital for Nervous Disease in London. He is board certified in neurology and internal medicine with a subspecialty certification in critical care.

Dr. Munschauer currently directs the Research Center for Stroke and Heart Disease at Kaleida Health in Buffalo. His research interests are in vascular disease prevention, healthcare delivery, and multiple sclerosis. He is involved in a number of clinical trials funded by the National Institutes of Health as well as the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Munschauer's research has been published recently in Clinical Therapeutics, Stroke, Neurology, and Annals of Neurology.

Dr. Munschauer is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, National Stroke Association, American Heart Association, American Medical Association, American Society of Neuroimaging, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

J. Theodore Phillips, Jr., MD, PhD
Multiple Sclerosis Center at Texas Neurology, Baylor University Medical Center

Dr. Ted Phillips is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with special honors in chemistry, and received MD and PhD (Immunology) degrees and Neurology Residency training from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Texas Neurology in Dallas, and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Attending Neurologist at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He is a principal developer of a national registry for MS (MSTRAC), and is a principal investigator in several ongoing clinical treatment trials in MS.

Stephen M. Rao, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Stephen Rao, a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, is Professor of Neurology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit and completed a predoctoral internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.

For the past two decades, he has conducted longitudinal investigations of the cognitive, personality, and neuroimaging changes associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). He has also been involved in the development of cognitive tests for measuring outcome in MS clinical trials. He has authored more than 80 scientific papers and book chapters and edited three books, including Neurobehavioral Aspects of Multiple Sclerosis (published by Oxford University Press). Dr. Rao has been a recipient of an NIH Research Career Development Award and has received funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Charles A. Dana Foundation, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. He reviews articles for more than 30 journals and grants for the National Institutes of Health, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the Veterans Administration. He was recently elected a fellow of the American Psychological Association.