Dr. Nath Presents on the "Neurological Complications of COVID"

Hosted by board members Angela Meriquez and Chimére Smith, Dr. Nath presented on the “Neurological Complications of COVID” on Sunday, May 16 at 10:00am PST & 1:00pm EDT then answered questions from Body Politic members. Click the link below to view the presentation.

Dr. Nath received his MD degree from Christian Medical College in India in 1981 and completed a residency in Neurology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, followed by a fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis and Neurovirology at the same institution and then a fellowship in Neuro-AIDS at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He held faculty positions at the University of Manitoba (1990-97) and the University of Kentucky (1997-02). In 2002, he joined Johns Hopkins University as Professor of Neurology and Director of the Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections. He joined NIH in 2011 as the Clinical Director of NINDS, the Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center and Chief of the Section of Infections of the Nervous System. His research focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of retroviral infections of the nervous system and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for these diseases.

His clinical expertise is in managing patients with CNS infections or patients with immune disorders where an infectious etiology may be suspected. His expertise has been called upon at both national and international levels for every major outbreak such as the Ebola infection, Nodding syndrome, Zika virus infection, enterovirus associated acute flaccid paralysis, and SARS-CoV-2. He has also established a clinic for undiagnosed neuroinflammatory disorders through which several novel infectious syndromes and autoimmune disorders have been defined.

The goal of his laboratory is to understand the mechanisms by which 1) the brain adapts to the invasion by viral pathogens and 2) persistent or restricted viral replication causes neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.