Mitchell Taylor Wallin MD, MPH, FAAN

Mitchell Taylor Wallin is a nationally recognized clinician-scientist specializing in multiple sclerosis (MS), epidemiology, and global health. He was mentored by Dr. John Kurtze and has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews. Dr. Wallin’s research and writing over the past 20 years have been supported by the National MS Society, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Merit Review system, NIH, and other sources.

Wallin currently directs the VA MS Center of Excellence-East and received the Mark Wolcott Award for Clinical Leadership for innovations in neurological care, telemedicine, and health policy. He chairs the US Multiple Sclerosis Prevalence Workgroup funded by the National MS Society which produced a nationally representative MS prevalence estimate for the US utilizing a novel dataset algorithm.

Dr. Wallin serves as a neurology consultant to the Global Burden of Disease Study Group and is a neurologist attending the University Teaching Hospital-Lusaka-University of Zambia.  He is board-certified in neurology preventive medicine and public health.