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Article: An integrated approach to MS research and care: the 2007 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis for Dr. Howard L. Weiner.(SPECIAL RESEARCH ISSUE)
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- Inside MS
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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MS treatment and care might be very different today without the work of Howard L. Weiner, MD, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard University. The recipient of this year's prestigious John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Dr. Weiner has left his mark on almost every aspect of the field--from improvements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to the search for an oral drug, to long-term studies of people living with the disease.
But he does not merely integrate different kinds of research. In 1999, Dr. Weiner established Partners MS Center at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the first MS clinics to fully ...