Jeremy Schmahmann
Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
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- Harvard Medical School
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Biography
Harvard Medical School
Jeremy D. Schmahmann, M.D. is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he is Founding Director of the Ataxia Center (1994), Director of the Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, and a member of the Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit. Dr. Schmahmann received his medical degree with distinction at the University of Cape Town, winning the Nestle Prize (pediatrics) and Wilfrid Exner Bauman Prize (best student). Dr. Schmahmann completed residency in the Neurological Unit of the Boston City Hospital, and Anatomy and Neurobiology Fellowship in the Boston University School of Medicine. He joined the MGH faculty in 1989 and has been cited in The Best Doctors in America since 1996. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
Dr. Schmahmann won the American Academy of Neurology’s Norman Geschwind Prize (2000) for pioneering work on the role of the cerebellum in cognition and emotion, and description of the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (now, Schmahmann’s syndrome). He received the American Neurological Association’s Distinguished Neurology Teacher Award (2008), Harvard Medical School’s Special Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching (2013), and visiting professorships throughout the USA and Europe. He is past president of the Boston Society of Neurology and Psychiatry and the American Neuropsychiatric Association, on the Executive of the Society for Research on the Cerebellum and Ataxias, the Medical and Scientific Research Advisory Board of the National Ataxia Foundation, and the Clinical Research Consortium for the Study of Cerebellar Ataxias. He was Founding Co-Director of the HMS Dementia Course (1995). Dr. Schmahmann is funded by the NIH and private foundations. He has > 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals and academic texts , and he co-authored and edited 6 monographs – The Cerebellum and Cognition, MRI Atlas of the Human Cerebellum, Fiber Pathways of the Brain, Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders, Essentials of the Handbook of the Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders, and Cerebellar Disorders in Children.
Clinical Interests:
- Ataxia
- Cerebellar disorders
- Cognitive/behavioral neurology
Medical Education
- MD, University of Cape Town
- M.B., CH.B.,University of Cape Town School of Medicine, South Africa
- Residency, Boston City Hospital
- Residency, Boston City Hospital
- Residency, Brockton Veterans Administration Medical Center
- Fellowship, Boston University School of Medicine
American Board Certifications
- Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties
- Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
- Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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