Daniel Pelletier MD

Dr. Pelletier is a clinician-scientist born and educated in the Province of Quebec, Canada. After receiving his B.A. in Computer Sciences and studying Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Pelletier received his M.D. degree in 1994 and completed his Neurology training at Laval and McGill universities. He subsequently received research training in multiple sclerosis and advanced MRI techniques at the Montreal Neurological Institute. He joined the University of California, San Francisco MS Center in 1999 as a recipient of a National Multiple Sclerosis Physician Fellowship Award Grant for his work in molecular imaging. He was appointed at Yale in January 2011 to lead the MS Program as Chief of the Neuro-Immunology Division and Yale Multiple Sclerosis Center until March 2015. He joined USC to become Vice-Chair of Research and Chief of the Neuro-Immunology and MS Division.

Dr. Pelletier's clinical practice is focused on individualized medicine using a multi-disciplinary team approach. Individual patients with multiple sclerosis require individual therapeutic strategies based on clinical, genetic, and environmental features and profiles. This can be achieved through evidence-based knowledge using the latest validated technology specifically developed for multiple sclerosis.