38th Annual J.L. Silversides, Visiting Professor of Neurology, a Neurology Residents’ & Fellows’ Day with the University of Toronto! The Division of Neurology is excited to announce Dr. Richard J. Barohn from The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City will speak at two separate events.

Presenter: Dr. Richard J. Barohn

Topic: Challenges in Running Multicentre Clinical Trials

Biography:

Dr. Richard Barohn is a graduate of the six-year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine. He completed his BA degree in 1975 and was awarded his MD degree in 1980. He completed a medicine internship at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas prior to serving as General Medical Officer for the USAF. He completed a neurology residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center and a neuromuscular fellowship with Dr. Jerry Mendel at Ohio State University. He served on the faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas from 1989 to 1993.

Dr. Barohn then joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1993. There he was the Co-Director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, myasthenia gravis, and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis clinics and peripheral neuropathy clinics. In 1998, he became the Lois C.A. and Darwin E. Smith Distinguished Chair in Neurological Mobility Research and the acting chairman of the department. In January 2001, he became the Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. In 2007, he received an endowed chair and was named as the Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology. In 2013, KU named him as a University Distinguished Professor, in recognition of his scholarly work.