Neura Editor-at-Large
Professor of Neurology
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Director, Multiple Sclerosis Center
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Burlington, Vermont
"Neurologists are very fortunate because diseases of the CNS present us with an unparalleled combination of fascination, frustration, and fulfillment."
Dr. Panitch is Professor of Neurology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, and founder and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Fletcher Allen Health Care in the same city. The center, which serves patients with MS in northern New England and upstate New York, is the site of several ongoing clinical trials evaluating new therapies for various stages of MS. Before relocating to Vermont, Dr. Panitch was Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, and was involved as principal investigator in clinical trials of immunomodulating agents.
Dr. Panitch received his BA degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, studied at the University of Lyon in France as a Fulbright Scholar, and received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. After an internship in medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York and a residency in neurology at the University of California in San Francisco, he was a postdoctoral fellow in neurovirology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a senior staff fellow with the neuroimmunology branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.
A member of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and former Chair of the Section on Multiple Sclerosis of the American Academy of Neurology, his principal clinical interests are the diagnosis and management of MS and other immune-mediated diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. His major research interests include clinical trial design, immunoregulation of disease activity in MS, and therapy of MS with immunomodulating agents.
The author of 19 book chapters, 83 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 78 abstracts and letters, Dr. Panitch also serves as a reviewer for the Annals of Neurology, Neurology, the Journal of Neuroimmunology, the Journal of the Neurological Sciences, and the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.
Often invited to lecture at national and international conferences, seminars, and grand rounds, he is also a frequent speaker and consultant on a variety of topics related to the therapy and clinical management of MS.
