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Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation Editors • Neurology Editor-in-Chief JOSÉ MERINO, MD, MPHIL, FAAN Department of Neurology Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, DC Specialties: Neurology, vascular neurology Deputy Editor OLGA CICCARELLI, MD, PhD, FRCP Dept. of Neuroinflammation UCL Institute of Neurology London, UNITED KINGDOM Specialties: Multiple sclerosis, neuroimaging, autoimmune diseases, clinical trials, outcome measures Deputy Editor for Editorial Education and Associate Editor BRADFORD B. WORRALL, MD, MSc, FAAN University of Virginia Dept. of Neurology Charlottesville, VA Specialties: Vascular neurology, genetics, ethical and methodological issues in translational research, epidemiology 1 Associate Editors • Neurology PETER HEDERA, ANTHONY A. AMATO, REBECCA BURCH, MD, FAHS JOHN R. CORBOY, MD, FAAN JOSEP O. DALMAU, MD, PhD MD, PhD MD, FAAN Brigham and Women’s Hospital EDITOR, NEUROLOGY: EDITOR, NEUROLOGY: Vanderbilt University Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Neurology, CLINICAL PRACTICE NEUROIMMUNOLOGY & Dept. of Neurology Hale Building for Division of Headache and Pain NEUROINFLAMMATION University of Colorado Nashville, TN Transformative Medicine Boston, MA School of Medicine Catalan Institution of Research Boston, MA Specialties: Movement disorders, Specialties: Headache Medicine and Advanced Studies Dept. of Neurology neurogenetics, ataxia, essential Specialties: Neuromuscular, tremor, hereditary spastic EMG/NCV, diabetic neuropathy, Rocky Mountain Multiple (ICR EA) Hospital Clinic/IDIBAPS Sclerosis Center at CU Service of Neurology paraplegia, dystonia, Parkinson facial-scapulo-humoral dystrophy, disease, Huntington disease Lambert-Eaton syndrome, Aurora, CO Barcelona, SPAIN mitochondrial disorders, motor Specialties: Neurovirology, neuron disease, muscular Dept. of Neurology multiple sclerosis, neuroeducation, dystrophies, myasthenia gravis, Hospital of the University of diagnostics, therapeutics myopathies Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Specialties: Neuro-oncology and neuroimmunology LINDA A. HERSHEY, BARBARA C. JOBST, MD, STEFAN M. PULST, MD, FAAN RENÉE SHELLHAAS, MD, MS MD, PhD, FAAN PhD, FAAN EDITOR, NEUROLOGY: Clinical Professor of Pediatrics University of Oklahoma Dartmouth-Hitchcock GENETICS Director of Research Epilepsy Center & Dept. of Michigan Medicine Pediatric Health Sciences Center. University of Utah Neurology Neurology Edmond, OK Dept. of Neurology Specialties: Dementia and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Salt Lake City, UT CS Mott Children’s Hospital Medical Center Ann Arbor, MI behavioral disorders, including Specialties: Genetics, movement Alzheimer disease, dementia Lebanon, NH disorders Specialties: Pediatric epilepsy, with Lewy bodies, mild cognitive Specialties: Epilepsy, epilepsy neonatal neurology impairment, vascular dementia, surgery, brain stimulation, self- progressive supranuclear palsy, management, cognition in epilepsy corticobasal degeneration, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington disease 2 Assistant Editors • Neurology JONATHAN GRAFF-RADFORD, JENNIFER GRAVES, MD, MD PHD, MAS ASSISTANT EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR Mayo Clinic Associate Professor of Dept. of Neurology Neurosciences Rochester, MN Director of the UCSD Specialties: Mild cognitive Neuroimmunology Research impairment, Alzheimer disease, Program frontotemporal dementia, vascular cognitive impairment, dementia with Director Rady Children’s Lewy bodies Pediatric MS Center ACTRI La Jolla, CA Specialties: Multiple sclerosis, neuroimmunology, neuro- ophthalmology, epidemiology, genetics, digital health 3 Classification of Evidence and Biostatistics • Neurology GARY S. GRONSETH, RICHARD J. KRYSCIO, PhD V. SHANE PANKRATZ, PhD SUE LEURGANS, PhD MD, FAAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR, BIOSTATISTICS BIOSTATISTICS ASSOCIATE EDITOR, BIOSTATISTICS Director, Biostatistics Shared Depts. of Neurological Sciences & CLASSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE University of Kentucky Resource Preventive Medicine EVALUATIONS Lexington, KY UNM Comprehensive Cancer Statistics, Rush Alzheimer’s University of Kansas Specialties: Clinical trials, ALS, Center Disease Center Medical Center Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, Kansas City, KS cancer, space-time Professor, Dept. of Internal Rush University Medical Center Medicine Chicago, IL Specialties: Biostatistics, clinical trials, epidemiology UNM Health Sciences Center Specialty: Biostatistics Albuquerque, NM Specialty: Biostatistics, longitudinal data analysis, clinical trials, causal analysis 4 Section Editors • Neurology LEALANI MAE Y. ACOSTA, EDUARDO E. BENARROCH, GRETCHEN L. BIRBECK, BRIAN C. CALLAGHAN, STACEY L. CLARDY, MD, MD, MPH MD, FAAN MD, MPH, DTMH, FAAN MD, MS PhD, FAAN EDITOR, HUMANITIES IN EDITOR, BASIC SCIENCE IN EDITOR, WITHOUT BORDERS EDITOR, INNOVATIONS IN EDITOR, NEUROLOGY PODCAST NEUROLOGY THE CLINIC University of Rochester CARE DELIVERY University of Utah Vanderbilt University Medical Mayo Clinic Rochester, NY University of Michigan Imaging and Neuroscience Center Center Department of Rochester, MN Specialties: Tropical neurology, Dept. of Neurology Staff Neuroloist, VA Salt Lake Neurology Specialty: Autonomic epidemiology, health services Ann Arbor, MI City Health Care System Nashville, TN research Specialties: Neuromuscular, health Salt Lake City, UT Specialty: Cognitive services research, epidemiology Specialty: Autoimmune neurology, behavioral neurology neuroimmunology STEVEN GALETTA, MD, FAAN ARAVIND GANESH, MD, DAVID S. KNOPMAN, LUDWIG GUTMANN, MD, ROY H. HAMILTON, MD, MD, FAAN EDITOR, DISPUTES & DEBATES DPHIL (OXON) FAAN MS, FAAN DEPUTY EDITOR, DISPUTES & SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY SENIOR CONSULTING EDITOR, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, EQUITY, NYU School of Medicine DEBATES ADVISOR HUMANITIES IN NEUROLOGY DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION Dept. of Neurology SECTION NY, NY Department of Clinical Mayo Clinic Department of Neurology Neurosciences Dept. of Neurology University of Iowa Hospitals University of Pennsylvania Specialties: Neuro-ophthalmology, University of Calgary Rochester, MN and Clinics Philadelphia, PA idiopathic intracranial hypertension, multiple sclerosis, nystagmus, Calgary, CANADA Specialties: Behavioral neurology/ Iowa City, IA Specialties: Cognitive and ocular motility, optic nerve, optic neuropsychology, cognitive Neuromuscular Medicine behavioral neurology neuritis, visual fields, visual loss Specialities: Vascular and cognitive disorders, clinical trials, Clinical Neurophysiology neurology epidemiology, neuropsychology, Alzheimer disease, dementia with Professor of Neurology Lewy bodies, executive function, University of Iowa frontotemporal dementia, vascular Specialties: Neuromuscular dementia diseases, EMG/NCS, myopathies, neuropathies, ALS, neuromuscular junction disorders 5 Section Editors • Neurology HOLLY E. HINSON, MD, MCR, JONATHAN P. HOSEY, MD, STEVEN KARCESKI, MD ADAM G. KELLY, MD, FAAN KEVIN A. KERBER, MD, MS FAAN FAAN EDITOR, PATIENT PAGE EDITOR, CONTINUING MEDICAL EDITOR, INNOVATIONS IN CARE ASSOCIATE EDITOR, EQUITY, EDITOR, SUPPLEMENTS Cornell Comprehensive EDUCATION DELIVERY DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION St. Luke’s Neurology Associates Epilepsy Center Dept. of Neurology Dept. of Neurology SECTION Fountain Hill, PA Weill Cornell Medical College University of Florida College University of Michigan Associate Director of Clinical Specialties: Vascular neurology New York, NY of Medicine Health System Research, Neurocritical Care Gainesville, FL Ann Arbor, MI Program Specialties: Epilepsy, EEG, diagnostics Specialties: Cerebrovascular Specialties: Health services research, Associate Professor, Neurology diseases, medical decision making, neuro-otology and Emergency Medicine medical education Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR Specialty: Neurocritical care ARIANE LEWIS, MD JEFFREY C. MCCLEAN II, MD, NICTE I. MEJIA, MD, MPH, JOHN J. MILLICHAP, MD, JONATHAN W. MINK, DEPUTY EDITOR, DISPUTES & FAAN FAAN FAAN MD, PhD, FAAN DEBATES EDITOR, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, EDITOR, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, EDITOR, RESIDENT OMBUDSMAN NYU Langone Medical Center AND INCLUSION (EDI) AND INCLUSION (EDI) & FELLOW SECTION University of Rochester New York, NY Assistant Professor of Massachusetts General Epilepsy Center, Ann & Robert Dept. of Neurology Specialty: Neurocritical care Neurology, Uniformed Services Hospital H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Rochester, NY University of the Health Boston, MA of Chicago Specialties: Child neurology and Sciences Neurology Program Depts. of Pediatrics and movement disorders Director, San Antonio Uniformed Specialties: Movement disorders Neurology Services Health Education Northwestern University Consortium Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL Chief of the Medical Staff, 959th Medical Group, Brooke Specialties: Pediatric epilepsy, Army Medical Center pediatric EEG, infantile seizures, febrile seizures, post-infectious/inflammatory Houston, TX epilepsy, epilepsy surgery Specialty: Neuromuscular medicine 6 Section Editors • Neurology HEIDI GEORGE MOAWAD, MD JAMES W.M. OWENS, JR., JEFFREY B. RATLIFF, MD NICOLE ROSENDALE, MD JAMES E. SIEGLER III, MD EDITOR, HUMANITIES IN MD, PhD DEPUTY EDITOR, PODCASTS EDITOR, EQUITY, DIVERSITY, DEPUTY EDITOR, DISPUTES & NEUROLOGY EDITOR, CONTINUING MEDICAL Thomas Jefferson University AND INCLUSION (EDI) DEBATES Case Western Reserve University EDUCATION Dept. of Neurology ZSFG Neurology Hospital of University of School of Medicine University of Washington Philadelphia, PA San Francisco, CA Pennsylvania Dept. of Neurology Philadelphia, PA Clinical Assistant Professor, Specialties: Movement disorders, Specialty: Neurohospitalist Seattle Children’s Hospital Division of Medical
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