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Aston Medical School (AMS) [1] [2] [3] is part of Aston University, located in the city centre of Birmingham, in the United Kingdom. It is the 34th medical school in the UK and 6th in the Midlands. [4] It exists to train doctors and to promote medical research.
Stephen Waxman was born on August 17, 1945, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. His father was a court reporter and his mother a housewife. Waxman received his BA from Harvard University (1967), and his PhD (1970) and MD (1972) degrees from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Karen K. Hsiao Ashe is a professor at the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Medical School, where she holds the Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience. [2]
Joseph R. Berger (born April 19, 1951) is an American internist and neurologist who is known [1] [non-primary source needed] [2] [non-primary source needed] for his research interests in progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), the neurological complications of HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and other inflammatory disorders of the brain.
Asif Ahmed FRSB is a British-Indian vascular scientist, [1] whose research focuses on reducing the risk of mortality and morbidity in pregnancy. [2] He is the founder and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Aston Medical School, Birmingham, [3] and established the Aston Medical Research Institute, a university-wide multidisciplinary translational research entity at Aston University.
He completed a B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University. [2] He earned an M.D. from the Thomas Jefferson University in 1973. [2] He conducted a medical internship at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. [2] In 1977, Gordon completed a neurology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. [2]
The program has its origins in the non-NIH funded MD-PhD training offered at the nation's research-centric medical schools. An early dual-degree program began at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1956. [4] Other prominent medical schools quickly followed this example and developed integrated MD-PhD training structures.
In 1991, Young began as chief of neurology at Mass Gen and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. In 2012, she was appointed Distinguished Julieanne Dorn Distinguished Professor of Neurology, where she teaches presently. Her research has been in metabotropic glutamate receptors in neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease.