Stephen G. Waxman MD, PhD

Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology and Pharmacology
Chairman, Dept. of Neurology
Director, Center for Neuroscience & Regeneration/Neurorehabilitation Research
Yale University School of Medicine & VA Connecticut

Stephen Waxman, M.D., Ph.D. exemplifies the bridge between basic research and clinical medicine. He is the Bridget Marie Flaherty Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Pharmacology at Yale University and is the Director of the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center, a multidisciplinary research institute established collaboratively by Yale University, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Paralyzed Veterans of America. He has served as Chairman of Neurology at Yale since 1986. Dr. Waxman is also Visiting Professor 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 MD and PhD degrees (1970, 1972) from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following Neurology Residency at Boston City Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1972-75), he held faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, MIT, and Stanford University, prior to moving to Yale in 1986. Dr. Waxman has received international recognition for his research, which focuses molecular techniques on the nervous system, with the goal of finding new therapies that will promote recovery of function after injury to the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.

Dr. Waxman has published more than 500 scientific papers, has authored the clinical text Spinal Cord Compression, and has edited eight books. He has served on the editorial boards of many journals including Brain, Annals of Neurology, Trends in Neurosciences, Nature Clinical Neurology, and Trends in Molecular Medicine, and he serves as Editor of The Journal of Physiology and as Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Letters. Dr. Waxman has trained more than one hundred and fifty academic 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’s many awards include the Tuve Award from NIH, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Reingold Award from the National MS Society, and the Dystel Prize and the Wartenberg Award from the American Academy of Neurology.