Walter Koroshetz, MD

Director
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D., has been the director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) since 2015. Dr. Koroshetz first joined NINDS in 2007 as deputy director and served as acting director from October 2014 through June 2015. As NINDS director, Dr. Koroshetz directs program planning and budgeting, and oversees the scientific and administrative functions of the Institute. He has held leadership roles in many National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NINDS programs, including the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, the Traumatic Brain Injury Center collaborative effort between the NIH Intramural Research Program and the Uniformed Services University, and the establishment of the NIH Office of Emergency Care Research. Additionally, Dr. Koroshetz is a member of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) and the Executive Committee for the NIH Pain Consortium.

Before joining NINDS, Dr. Koroshetz served as vice chair of the neurology service and director of stroke and neurointensive care services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and was a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Koroshetz graduated from Georgetown University and received his medical degree from the University of Chicago. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Chicago and MGH. A major focus of his clinical research career was to develop measures that reflect the underlying biology of patient conditions.