Walter Koroshetz, MD

Dr. Koroshetz serves as Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He joined NINDS in 2007 as Deputy Director and has co-led the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative, the NIH RECOVER Initiative in the study of Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19, NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience, the Traumatic Brain Injury Center collaboration between the NIH intramural and the Uniformed Health Services University, the NIH Helping to End Addiction Long Term (HEAL) Initiative, and the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. He co-leads a number of NIH Common Fund’s programs including the Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures program, Somatic Cell Genome Editing program, ALS Transformative Research Award program, and he was instrumental in founding the NIH Office of Emergency Care Research. Before NINDS, Dr. Koroshetz served as the Neurology Vice Chair and Director of stroke and neurointensive care and led neurology resident training at Massachusetts General Hospital as a Harvard professor.