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Elliott Marcus Endowment Lectureship

Causal mapping epilepsy and neuropsychiatric symptoms to human brain networks, by Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Elliott Marcus, MD, Lectureship

Elliott Marcus, MD, Lectureship Elliott M. Marcus, MD, and professor with a passion in neuroscience and neurology developed and organized the academic neurology service in 1976, in collaboration with UMass Chan Medical School and St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester and a former professor establishing the neuroscience teaching program at Tufts Medical School.

Marcus continued to teach neurology to students and residents after retiring from his administrative position in 1998. Tufts and UMass recognized him through his various teaching awards. He was a polished author and published many research papers in the field of epilepsy. He co-authored four neuroscience textbooks with Stanley Jacobson, MD, and was working on a new revision of his first book, An Introduction to the Neurosciences, at the time of his death in 2011.

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photo of Felicia Chu, MD, Michael Fox, MD, PhD, and Pegah Afra, MD

Guest presenter, Michael Fox, MD, PhD, joined the Department of Neurology grand rounds lectureship in honor of Elliott Marcus Endowed program. His presentation provided insight into brain connections.

pictured in photo: Felicia Chu, MD, Michael Fox, MD, PhD, and Pegah Afra, MD

Elliott Marcus Endowed Lecture Program

May 21, 2024 Elliott Marcus Lectureship, on:

Causal mapping epilepsy and neuropsychiatric symptoms to human brain networks, by Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Dr. Elliott Fox, MD, PhD

Michael D. Fox, MD, PhD, is the founding Director of the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the inaugural Raymond D. Adams Distinguished Chair of Neurology and the Kaye Family Research Director of Psychiatric Brain Stimulation.

He completed a degree in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University, an MD and PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, and Neurology Residency and Movement Disorders Fellowship at Mass Gen Brigham. Clinically, he specializes in the use of invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Dr. Fox’s research focuses on developing new treatments for brain disease by understanding brain circuits, brain lesions, and the effects of neuromodulation. His papers have been cited over 46,000 times and he has won awards across the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and brain stimulation, including the inaugural Trailblazer Prize for Clinician Scientists from the NIH foundation.