Career Development Symposium - American Neurological Association

Speaker/Mentor Biographies
advising the President on issues that may emerge from advances in biomedicine and related
areas of science and technology.
Argye E. Hillis, MD, MA
Johns Hopkins University/Baltimore, MD
Argye E. Hillis, MD, MA is a Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine, with joint faculty appointments in Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation and in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hillis
serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology, Director
of the Neurology Residency Program, and the Co-Director of the
Cerebrovascular Division of Neurology at Johns Hopkins. She received her
undergraduate training and master’s degree from George Washington
University and medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to
medical training and neurology residency, Dr. Hillis trained in the fields of speech-language
pathology and cognitive neuropsychology, and conducted clinical research focusing on
understanding and treating aphasia and hemispatial neglect. She has brought these areas of
experience to impact on her clinical research in neurology, which involves cognitive and
neuroimaging studies of aphasia and hemispatial neglect due to acute stroke and focal
dementias. Her current research aims to improve understanding how language functions and
spatial maps are represented in the brain, and how understanding these processes can
contribute to evaluation and treatment of stroke and dementia. She has published extensively
on these topics in journals and textbooks. Dr. Hillis is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Behavioural
Neurology and Associate Editor of Brain, Nature Reviews Neurology, and Aphasiology and has
served as Associate editor of Annals of Neurology, Neurocase, American Journal of Speech-
Language Pathology, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Language and Cognitive Processes. Dr.
Hillis was the 2003 recipient of the Derek Denny Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the
American Neurological Association, the 2004 recipient of the Norman Geschwind Award in
Behavioral Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, and the 2007 recipient of the
Yves and Justin Sergeant Award in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her current research is supported by
the National Institutes of Health (NINDS and NIDCD).
Karen C. Johnston, MD, MS
University of Virginia/Charlottesville, VA
Karen C. Johnston, MD, MSc is the Harrison Distinguished Professor and Chair
of Neurology and Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of
Virginia. She graduated from medical school at the University of Rochester
School of Medicine in 1991. She did her neurology residency at the University
of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital and a vascular neurology fellowship at
the University of Virginia. She joined the UVA faculty in 1997 and obtained a
Master’s degree in outcomes research and clinical investigation in 1999. She is
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