José G. Merino, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FAAN

José G. Merino, MD, MPhil, FAHA, FAAN, is a professor in the department of neurology at Georgetown University Hospital, where he is also co-vice chair for education. Merino studied medicine at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City and obtained a Master of Philosophy degree on the history of medicine from the University of Cambridge in England. He trained in neurology and psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and in stroke at the University of Western Ontario. He has worked as faculty and clinical staff of the Section of Stroke Diagnosis and Therapeutics of NINDS, the University of Florida, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and the University of Maryland. His clinical and research interests focus on the management of patients with acute stroke. Merino has been engaged in editorial pursuits throughout his career. He has been a member of the editorial board of Stroke, the Revista Mexicana de Neurociencia, and science editor of AAN.com. Most recently, he was the US research editor of The BMJ from 2012 until 2019.

He has served the AAN as a member of the Science Committee, Nominations Committee, Meeting Management Committee, Leadership Development Committee, and immediate past chair of the Diversity Leadership Subcommittee. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Neurology^® journals, is a member of the editorial board of the AAN’s Brain & Life^® en Español, and is chair of the Publication Committee.