Igor J. Koralnik, MD, has been named chairman of the department of neurological sciences at Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center, effective July 1.
Here are four things to know about Dr. Koralnik.
1. He is an expert on viral diseases affecting the nervous system and neurological manifestations of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
2. He is currently chief of the division of neuro-immunology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. He also serves as director of the HIV/Neurology Center, an outpatient clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
3. Dr. Koralnik also created a global neurology research program in Lusaka, Zambia, where he and his colleagues have studied central nervous system opportunistic infections and new onset seizures in HIV-infected patients.
4. At Rush, Dr. Koralnik will succeed Jacob H. Fox, MD, who will retire as chairman of neurological sciences at Rush after 26 years. Dr. Fox will remain on the neurology faculty at Rush.
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