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Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD, is the Ruth Dunietz Kushner and Michael Jay Serwitz professor and chair of
Neurology at Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School. He
also serves as senior vice-president for Neurology at RWJ Barnabas Health Care System. In addition,
he directs the Rutgers Center for Multiple Sclerosis and is a past-President of the Americas
Committee for Treatment and Research in MS.
After graduating medical school Alpha Omega Alpha and completing neurology training, Dr. Dhib-
Jalbut joined the National Institutes of Health where he specialized in Neuroimmunology and Multiple
Sclerosis. He then launched his career as a physician-scientist at the University of Maryland School
of Medicine, where he served as a tenured professor before his recruitment in 2003 to chair the
Department of Neurology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. In 2015, he was appointed joint
chair of Neurology for both medical schools at Rutgers.
Dr. Dhib-Jalbut has made seminal contributions to the field of neuroimmunology and neurovirology
that have led to our understanding the immunopathogenesis of serious neurologic diseases and
developing therapies for MS. His current research focuses on identifying biomarkers and predictors of
clinical response to MS therapies and the role of the gut microbiome in triggering MS. His research
has been funded over the years by the NIH, the VA, the National MS Society,
and the pharmaceutical industry.
As an internationally recognized expert in the clinical and scientific aspects of MS, he has held a
number of leadership positions. As president of ACRIMS, he chaired the International MS meeting in
Boston in 2014. He currently served as associate editor of the Multiple Sclerosis journal and the
Journal of Neuroimmunology. He has served on study sections and data safety monitoring boards for
the NIH, MS Society and other national and international agencies. He is an elected fellow of the
American Neurological Association. He has been on the Best Doctors in America list since 2009 and
has been recognized by several awards including the Norman H. Edelman Clinical Science Mentoring
Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Medical Excellence Award from the
National MS Society, the Edward J. Ill Award for Excellence in clinical research, and the Excellence in
Research Award from the New Jersey Health Foundation.
Education
MD, 1980, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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