Wednesday, September 27, 2023

12:00PM-1:00PM

Join in person or via Zoom Meeting



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*Participant Instructions

Towards Mechanisms and Novel Treatments for Motor and Sensory Neuron Diseases

Brian J. Wainger, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine and Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital 



Brian Wainger is Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine and Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital engaged in clinical practice, translational science, and clinical trials spanning diseases of sensory and motor nervous systems. He received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Princeton University and MD/PhD degrees from Columbia University. He completed medical residency in the Partners Neurology Program, clinical fellowship in Interventional Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Master’s Program in Clinical and Translational Investigation at Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of NIH New Innovator and New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator awards, MGH Trustees Endowed Scholar in Anesthesia, the Alexander Healey Endowed Chair in ALS, and the John McNeish Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research. His research has received support from a broad range of companies and foundations including the GlaxoSmithKline, Google Accelerated Science, Sanofi, The ALS Association, and Target ALS.


Join In person in the Marshall Wolf Conference Room, Hale BTM, 3rd Floor or via Zoom https://partners.zoom.us/j/5823462701


*Lunch will be served for in person attendees


Steps to claim CME credits for BWH Neurology Grand Rounds:

Send code NUGWUR to 1-857-214-2277.

For more information about BWH Neurology Grand Rounds 2023-2024 click here

If you have any questions about the process for receiving CME credit, please contact the MGB Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at PartnersCPD@partners.org or visit their website here.


Recordings of past seminars


October 4th speakers: 

Kirk R. Daffner, M.D.

Michael G. Erkkinen, M.D.

Scott M. McGinnis, M.D.

Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D.

Andrew M. Stern, M.D., Ph.D.


Panel Discussion: Promise and challenges of the first disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s disease

For questions and to submit feedback, please contact Seminar Directors Tracy Young-Pearse, Ph.D. and William R. Renthal, M.D., Ph.D.

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