Martin Samuels

Martin A. Samuels, MD, is the Miriam Sydney Joseph Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and founding and current chair of the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed his undergraduate studies at Williams College, and received his MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his post-doctoral training in internal medicine at the Boston City Hospital and in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Board certified in both neurology and internal medicine, Dr. Samuels is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the Royal College of Surgeons and a Master of the American College of Physicians. He is the past-president of the Association of University Professors of Neurology. His special interest is the interface between internal medicine and neurology. He is internationally known, both within internal medicine and neurology as a premier diagnostician and teacher. Dr. Samuels’s career has been aimed at relieving suffering caused by neurological disease and symptoms. Gaining the experience and knowledge necessary to optimize the number of people he can help has been a life-long endeavor.

Dr. Samuels has defined the field of neurological medicine with its many subspecialties of neuro-cardiology, neuro-hematology, neuro-gastroenterology and all of the other broad interfaces between diseases of the nervous system and disorders in the rest of the body. He has also written and lectured widely on these topics, as well as common neurologic complaints such as dizziness, movement disorders, stroke, emergency neurology, and headache. He is perhaps best recognized as the creator of what is now known as Samuels’s Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics, now in its 9th edition as the co-author, with Dr. Allan Ropper, of Adams’s and Victor’s Principles of Neurology now in its 10th edition.

Education

Medical School

• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1971

Residencies

• Boston City Hospital, 1971 - 1973
• Massachusetts General Hospital, 1973 - 1974
• Boston City Hospital, 1974 - 1975
• Massachusetts General Hospital, 1975 - 1977

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, 1974
• Neurology, 1978

Publications (Pulled from Harvard Catalyst Profiles):

1. Chase J, Catalano A, Noble AJ, Eng ET, Olinares PD, Molloy K, Pakotiprapha D, Samuels M, Chait B, des Georges A, Jeruzalmi D. Mechanisms of opening and closing of the bacterial replicative helicase. Elife. 2018 12 24; 7.

2. Devinsky O, Boesch JM, Cerda-Gonzalez S, Coffey B, Davis K, Friedman D, Hainline B, Houpt K, Lieberman D, Perry P, Prüss H, Samuels MA, Small GW, Volk H, Summerfield A, Vite C, Wisniewski T, Natterson-Horowitz B. A cross-species approach to disorders affecting brain and behaviour. Nat Rev Neurol. 2018 Nov; 14(11):677-686.

3. Richterman A, Vaidya A, Brown JM, Braun DA, Samuels MA. In the Balance. N Engl J Med. 2018 Jan 18; 378(3):e5.

4. O'Donnell-Luria AH, Lin AP, Merugumala SK, Rohr F, Waisbren SE, Lynch R, Tchekmedyian V, Goldberg AD, Bellinger A, McFaline-Figueroa JR, Simon T, Gershanik EF, Levy BD, Cohen DE, Samuels MA, Berry GT, Frank NY. Brain MRS glutamine as a biomarker to guide therapy of hyperammonemic coma. Mol Genet Metab. 2017 05; 121(1):9-15.

5. Samuels MA, Gonzalez RG, Makadzange AT, Hedley-Whyte ET. Case 3-2017. A 62-Year-Old Man with Cardiac Sarcoidosis and New Diplopia and Weakness. N Engl J Med. 2017 01 26; 376(4):368-379.

6. Devinsky O, Samuels MA. Reply. Ann Neurol. 2016 12; 80(6):955-956.

7. Tyler KL, Samuels MA. In Memoriam: H. Richard Tyler, MD (1927-2016). JAMA Neurol. 2016 Nov 01; 73(11):1378-1380.

8. Devinsky O, Samuels MA. The brain that changed neurology: Broca's 1861 case of aphasia. Ann Neurol. 2016 09; 80(3):321-5.

9. Kaplan TB, Berkowitz AL, Samuels MA. Cardiovascular Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis. Neurologist. 2015 Dec; 20(6):108-14.

10. Brizzi K, Wang N, Batra A, Salinas J, Samuels MA. The value of a weekly newsletter in neurology. Pract Neurol. 2015 Apr; 15(2):119-20.