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SPEAKERS  

Amrita Ahluwalia, PhD

Andrew Arai, MD

Nigel Benjamin, MD, PhD

Kenneth Bloch, MD

H. Franklin Bunn, MD

Anthony Butler, MD

Richard O. Cannon, III, MD

Michael Doyle, PhD

Martin Feelisch, PhD

Erick Feigl, MD

Peter C. Ford, PhD

Bruce Freeman, PhD

Stan Hazen, MD, PhD

Susana Herold, PhD

Neil Hogg, PhD

Christian Hunter, MD, PhD

Frank Bo Jensen, D.Sc.

Gregory Kato, MD

Malte Kelm, MD, PhD

Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, PhD

Jack R. Lancaster Jr, PhD

David J. Lefer, PhD

Jon O. Lundberg, MD, PhD

Grant Mauk, PhD, MD

Hans Nohl, PhD

Edward Oldfield, MD

Rakesh P. Patel, PhD

Ryszard Pluta, MD

C.S. Raman, PhD

Joseph Rifkind, PhD

Alan Schechter, MD

Sruti Shiva, PhD

Margaret M. Tarpey, MD

Eddie Weitzberg, MD, PhD

David Wink, PhD

Jay L. Zweier, MD, PhD

Edward Oldfield, MD
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Session Chair: Therapeutic Applications of Nitrite for Human Orphan Diseases

Dr. Oldfield received his M.D. from the University of Kentucky Medical School, training in general surgery (1973-75) at Vanderbilt University, and in neurology (1975-76) at the National Hospital for Nervous Disease, London, England. He returned to Vanderbilt for training in neurosurgery (1976-1980). In 1984 he became chief of the Clinical Neurosurgery Department in the Surgical Neurology Branch of NINDS. In 1995 he was awarded the Grass Medal from the Society of Neurological Surgeons and in 1999 he received the Farber Award of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. His branch performs basic and clinical research in the areas of brain and pituitary tumors, syringomyelia, the development of new drug delivery techniques for the central nervous system, and certain types of vascular disorders of the central nervous system.