Jefferson’s Chair of Neurology Elected President of the Philadelphia Neurological Society
Abdolmohamad
Rostami, M.D. Ph. D., professor and chair of the Department of
Neurology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
and director of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Research
Laboratory at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience has been elected the
126th President of the Philadelphia Neurological Society.
“I
am extremely honored to serve as president of this prestigious
society,” says Dr. Rostami. “I believe in the main tenet of this
society, which is to promote neurology and to provide a forum to share
technological advances in the field of neurosciences. By openly
sharing ideas we can further advance the research into the causes of
neurological diseases to ultimately find better ways to diagnose and
treat them.”
Dr.
Rostami currently is the principal investigator for RO1 grants being
funded by more than $4 million in grants from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) supporting extensive research in multiple sclerosis
(MS) and neuroimmunology. He is also funded by the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society. Dr. Rostami is the author of more than 130
scientific papers that have been published in such leading journals as Nature Immunology, Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America, Annals of Neurology, and Journal of Immunology.
Dr.
Rostami is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the Royal
Society of Medicine in London and the College of Physicians in
Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Neurological Association,
the International Society of Neuroimmunology, the International Society
of Neuroimmunomodulation, the International Brain Research
Organization, the International Union of Immunological Societies, the
American Association of Immunologists and the Society for Neuroscience.
Dr.
Rostami has served on various study sections of the National Institutes
of Health, and as a consultant for the Veterans Administration Medical
Research Program, the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society and the
Australian Multiple Sclerosis Society. He has held editorial positions
in such leading journals as Multiple Sclerosis and Journal of Neurological Sciences. Dr. Rostami has been invited to give more than 70 lectures and has authored, and/or co-authored, more than 15 book chapters.
Dr.
Rostami completed an internship and residency in medicine at the Shiraz
University Medical School Hospital in Iran, where he also received his
doctor of medicine degree with highest honors. Subsequently, he
completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in neuroimmunology
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He served as a
member of the faculty, rising to the rank of professor of Neurology and
Medicine. While there he also served in many hospital and
administrative roles including chief of the Division of Multiple
Sclerosis and Neuroimmunolgy, and director of the Comprehensive
Multiple Sclerosis Center. He also received a doctor of philosophy
degree in Molecular Biology from Penn.
About the Philadelphia Neurological Society
The
Philadelphia Neurological Society (PNS) was founded in 1883 by Dr.
Charles Mills, Wharton Sinkler, Francis Dercum and J.K. Eskridge, and
is dedicated to promoting the study of neurology in all its
departments, and to provide an effective forum to share technological
advances in the field of neurosciences. PNS provides a forum to
congregate, discuss and learn together as a community. The Society’s
first president was S. Weir Mitchell, who was a graduate of Jefferson
Medical College. For more information, log onto www.phillyneuro.org.
Media Only Contact:
Ed Federico
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Phone: (215) 955-6300
Published: 1/12/2009