Scientific Topic Chairs

Topic Chairs are assigned to a particular specialty topic, and are responsible for coordinating the grading, selection, and assignment of abstracts in that topic for the AAN Annual Meeting Scientific Program.

• Aging and Dementia

  
  

  John Ringman, MD

• Anterior Horn

  
  

  Nicholas Maragakis, MD

• Autonomic Disorders

  
  

  William Cheshire, Jr., MD, FAAN

• Behavioral Neurology

  
  

  Bradford Dickerson, MD

• Cerebrovascular Disease

  
  

  James Meschia, MD, FAAN

• Child Neurology/Development Neurobiology

  
  

  Sookyong Koh, MD, PhD

• Clinical Neurophysiology

  
  

  Marc Nuwer, MD, PhD, FAAN

• Critical Care/Emergency Neurology/Trauma

  
  

  Errol Gordon, MD

• Epilepsy

  
  

  Joseph Sirven, MD, FAAN

• Ethics, Pain, and Palliative Care

  
  

  Farrah Mateen, MD

• Headache

  
  

  Michael F. Cutrer, MD, FAAN

• History of Neurology

  
  

  Peter Koehler, MD, PhD, FAAN

• Infections/AIDS/Prion Disease

  
  

  Avindra Nath, MBBS, FAAN

• Interventional Neurology

  
  

  Raul Nogueira, MD

• Movement Disorders

  
  

  Theresa Zesiewicz, MD

• MS and Related Diseases

  
  

  Tanuja Chitnis, MD

• MS and Related Disease

  
  

  Eric Klawiter, MD

• Muscle Disease/Neuromuscular Junction

  
  

  Vern Juel, MD, FAAN

• Neural Repair/Rehabilitation

  
  

  Svetlana Pundik, MD

• Neurologic Education

  
  

  Steven Lewis, MD, FAAN

• Neurologic Manifestations of Systemic Disease

  
  

  Robert Schwendimann MD, FAAN

• Neuro-oncology

  
  

  Kurt Jaeckle, MD, FAAN

• Neuro-Ophthalmology/Neuro-Otology

  
  

  Laura Balcer, MD, MSCE

• Peripheral Nerve

  
  

  Robert Baloh, MD, PhD

• Sleep Disorders

  
  

  Mark Quiqq, MD