Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc


Head of the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Chief of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair, Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Director
Neurological Clinical Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Founder and past Co-Chair
Northeast ALS Consortium
MSc 1996
MD Harvard Medical School 1990
als biomarkers; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; benzothiazoles; clinical epidemiology; clinical trials as topic; huntington disease; neuroprotective agents; rare diseases; riluzole; superoxide dismutase; ubiquinone Dr. Merit Cudkowicz is the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Neurology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Cudkowicz’s research and clinical activities are dedicated to the study and treatment of people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Dr. Cudkowicz directs the MGH ALS Program and the MGH Neurological Clinical Research Institute. She is one of the founders and former co-directors of the Northeast ALS Consortium (NEALS), a group of over 100 clinical sites in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East dedicated to performing collaborative academic led clinical trials and research studies in ALS. In conjunction with the NEALS consortium, she planned and completed over 15 multi-center clinical research studies s in ALS. She is Principal Investigator of the Clinical Coordination Center for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Neurology Network of Excellence in Clinical Trials (NeuroNEXT). The NeuroNEXT network is an efficient phase II network to develop innovative and new treatments for people with neurological disorders.

Dr. Cudkowicz received the American Academy of Neurology 2009 Sheila Essay ALS award. She is a pioneer in promoting and developing more efficient methods of developing new therapies for people with ALS. A dedicated educator, Dr. Cudkowicz mentors many young neurologists in clinical investigation of ALS and related neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Cudkowicz completed her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained a medical degree in the Health Science and Technology program of Harvard Medical School. She served her internship at Beth Israel Hospital in New York and her neurology residency and fellowship at MGH. She also obtained a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS Publications Clinical Profile
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