Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Dr. Diaz-Arrastia is Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where he serves as Director of Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Research. Dr. Diaz-Arrastia’s research interests are focused for the past 20+ years on understanding the molecular, cellular, and tissue level mechanisms of secondary neuronal injury and neuroregeneration, with the goal of developing therapeutic interventions.

Dr. Diaz-Arrastia received his MD and PhD degrees at Baylor College of Medicine in 1988. After internship in Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he completed a residency and fellowship in Neurology at Columbia University and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He served on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern from 1993 – 2011, and at the Uniformed Services University and the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine from 2011 – 2016.

Dr. Diaz-Arrastia has published over 300 primary research papers, as well as over 50 invited reviews and book chapters. He has also served in several national committees related to TBI research and practice, convened by the NIH, DoD, VA, and the National Academy Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.