Robert John DeLorenzo MD

Summary

• Robert DeLorenzo, MD, PhD, MPH is the Distinguished Career Professor of Neurology and former Chairman at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He received his PhD degree from Yale Graduate School in 1973, his MD degree from the Yale School of medicine and his MPH from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1974. He completed his residency training in Neurology at the Yale School of Medicine. He did his PhD thesis under the direction of the Nobel Laureate, Dr. Paul Greengard. He has focused his career on the clinical and basic research in epilepsy, status epilepticus, brain injury and stroke. He has published over 280 articles and served on numerous NIH study sections. He has received several awards for his work, including the American Epilepsy Society Milken Family Foundation Award for Clinical Research in Epilepsy, the NIH Jacob Javit’s Award, the Magale Neuroscience Award in Neurology and Neuroscience from LSU Health Science Center, the Dixon Woodbury Memorial Lecture from the University of Utah, the Jordi Folch Pi Award for Excellent Research in Neurochemistry from the American Society for Neurochemistry, the Walter O. Klingman Award for Outstanding Research in Neurology and Epilepsy from the University of Virginia and the Annual Award for Outstanding Research in Neurological Diseases and Epilepsy presented by the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.