Rohit Bakshi

Rohit Bakshi, M.D., is the Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology on Neuroimaging Essentials for the Clinician. Dr. Bakshi is Associate Professor of Neurology and Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Bakshi did his undergraduate work at Cornell University and obtained his M.D. from the University of Buffalo, State University of New York. He served as an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital and did his Neurology Residency at the University of California Los Angeles. He completed a Neuroimaging Fellowship at the Dent Neurologic Institute. He was an Alpha Omega Alpha research scholar and has been the recipient of the Saul R. Korey Award from the American Academy of Neurology for Outstanding Medical Student Neuroscience Research. He received the 1998 William H. Oldendorf Award for Neuroimaging Research. He received the Bernard H. Smith Award from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences for Academic Excellence in Clinical Neurology. He has mentored several Fellows and Medical Students who have gone on to receive the Alpha Omega Alpha Research Scholarship, The William H. Oldendorf Award, and the G. Milton Shy Award. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neuroimaging, Associate Editor of the journal Neurotherapeutics, and Chair of the American Academy of Neurology's Neuroimaging Section. He is the Principal Investigator on an RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health on gray matter disease and clinical progression in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Bakshi has been a trailblazer in the area of neuroimaging. He is the Course Director of the Neuroimaging Course at the American Academy of Neurology. He has given over 140 invited lectures and has authored more than 160 peer reviewed articles. We are thrilled to have Dr. Bakshi as the Guest Editor for this issue of Seminars and extend our tremendous appreciation to him and all of the authors that contributed to this incredible volume.