James Stankiewicz Email & Phone Number

Dr. Stankiewicz is Multiple Sclerosis Disease Area Head and Executive Director of Neuroscience in US Clinical Development and Medical Affairs at Novartis. Prior to joining industry he was Clinical Director of the Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He co-edited Multiple Sclerosis: Diagnosis and Therapy. He also directed the neurology clerkship director at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, holding ultimate responsibility for the education of Harvard Medical students in their core and advanced neurology rotation. He also co-directed the multiple sclerosis fellowship program at the Partners MS center.Dr. Stankiewicz received his AB from the University of Chicago in 1993 in the Biological Sciences with a specialization in Neurosciences, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his MD at Loyola University. He completed medical internship at Mt. Auburn hospital and neurology residency at Tufts. He was a post-doctoral research fellow in the neuroimaging of multiple sclerosis under the guidance of Rohit Bakshi, MD.He was a topic co-chair American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting scientific program for MS and CNS Inflammatory Disease. He was recurrently named a Top Doctor by Castle-Connolly and Boston Magazine and wrote an influential and well cited article "An Argument for Broad Use of High Efficacy Treatments in Multiple Sclerosis."