ABOUT THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Editor-in-Chief
John W Griffin, MD
John W Griffin, MD
John W Griffin received his BA degree from Grinnell College, Iowa in 1963 and his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1968. He was a Medical Intern and Resident at Stanford, and did his Neurology Residency at Johns Hopkins, before going to the NIH as a Clinical Associate. He has been on the Faculty at Johns Hopkins since 1976, and has been Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience since 1986. In 1998, he was named Director of the Department of Neurology and Neurologist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
Dr Griffin's research career has been devoted to the neurobiology and neuropathology of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), and to studies of peripheral neuropathies. The current focus of his laboratory is on three areas: basic mechanisms of degeneration and regeneration in the PNS, the pathogenesis of the immune-mediated nerve disease Guillain-Barré syndrome, and studies of human and experimental painful neuropathies. Dr. Griffin was an organizer of the North American trial of plasmapheresis for treatment of the Guillain-Barré syndrome, the first demonstration of an effective therapy in this disease.
His honors include the Jacob Javits Award from the NIH and numerous teaching awards, including the Professor's Award of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has given many named lectures, including the Robert Wartenberg Lecture of the American Academy of Neurology and the Soriano Lecture of the American Neurological Association. He is a member of the National Advisory Council to the National Institute of Neurologic Disease and Stroke. He is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Program in Translational Research. He is Past President of the Peripheral Nerve Society and the Society for Experimental Neuropathology, and President of the American Neurological Association.
He has taught and written extensively on peripheral nerve disease and has been one of the editors of Peripheral Neuropathy, the standard text on the subject, as well as editor of Current Therapy of Neurologic Disease and the neurologic section of the Kelley's Text Book of Medicine.
