Nicoline Schiess, MD, MPH

 

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The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology is Dr. Nicoline Schiess from the Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Schiess is Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the Director of the Nervous System and Special Senses section of the Genes to Society Course for Johns Hopkins first-year medical students. She was also the Director for the Nervous System/Special Senses and Mind, Brain, Behavior courses at Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. Schiess received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, and her medical degree from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. She completed an internship at New York Medical College and a residency at New York University hospitals. She then received a grant from the National MS Society to complete a fellowship in Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections at Johns Hopkins and subsequently stayed on as faculty. In 2010, Dr. Schiess received a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach neuroscience and start a subspecialty Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at Tawam Hospital—a Johns Hopkins operated hospital in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). She currently divides her time between the UAE and Baltimore.

The issue on “Global Health Neurology” is new to Seminars in Neurology, but when Nicoline approached me about the subject, I knew it would be extremely important and impactful, given the global health burden of neurological illness, and the specific aspects of diagnosis, management, and prevention associated with it. I could not be more pleased with the collection of manuscripts here, by true experts in the field, which provide the reader with great insights to the impact of neurological illness on public health worldwide. I greatly appreciate the efforts of Dr. Schiess, as well as all the contributing authors, for their great work in this issue of Seminars!