Physician Investigator (Cl) Neurology, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School

Associate Neurologist Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

M.D.; Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1987

peripheral nervous system diseases; peripheral neuropathies; polyneuropathies Dr. Oaklander is Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Pathology (Neuropathology) at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Cornell University and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After neurology residency at UMDNJ, she undertook postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins and joined their Neurosurgery faculty until moving to MGH where she directs an NIH-funded laboratory that studies generalized and restricted peripheral nerve problems. She has more than 135 publications and serves on the editorial board of Neurology: Neuroimmunology & NeuroInflammation. A Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association, she has serves on advisory and review panels for the NIH, the VA, and the Institute of Medicine.