Career Development Symposium - American Neurological Association

Speaker/Mentor Biographies
of the American Epilepsy Society. He has served as the President of the American Epilepsy
Society.
Stephen J. Korn, PhD
National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/Bethesda, MD
Stephen J. Korn, PhD is NINDS Director of Training, Career Development and Workforce
Diversity. He received his AB in Psychobiology from Oberlin College and his PhD in Pharmacology
from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Korn received postdoctoral training in
neurophysiology at NIH (as a PRAT Fellow of NIGMS) and in Biophysics at the Roche Institute of
Molecular Biology (with financial support from NRSA postdoctoral fellowships). He then spent
15 years on the faculty of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he was a Full Professor
in the Department of Physiology and Neurobiology. He served on the Editorial Board of the
Journal of General Physiology from 2000-2007 and served on the MDCN-4/NTRC study section
for six years, three as Chair. He came to NINDS in January of 2006. His area of scientific specialty
is the molecular basis of ion channel gating and permeation, but he also studied synaptic
transmission and mechanisms of epileptiform activity in the hippocampal slice, and combined
electrophysiological and imaging technology to study calcium and pH transport/buffering. He
has written many grants for many purposes and supported his research with funds from NIH,
NSF and several private foundations.
Walter J. Koroshetz, MD
National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/Bethesda, MD
Walter J. Koroshetz, MD serves as Deputy Director of The National Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). As the Deputy he works closely with the Director, Dr. Story
Landis, in the development and implementation of NINDS programs.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Koroshetz was vice chair of the neurology service
and director of stroke and neurointensive care services at Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH). He was also a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and led neurology
resident training at MGH from 1990-2007.
Dr. Koroshetz graduated from Georgetown University and received his medical degree from the
University of Chicago. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and
Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Koroshetz trained in neurology at MGH, after which he did
post-doctoral studies in cellular neurophysiology at MGH and the Harvard neurobiology
department. He joined the neurology staff, first in the Huntington’s Disease unit and then in the
stroke and neurointensive care service. During his career Dr. Koroshetz has conducted basic
electrophysiology research in cell membranes and in cultures of nerve cells and glial cells . His
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