Samia Joseph Khoury MD

Dr. Samia Joseph Khoury received her Medical Diploma from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984 having been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1983. She completed her neurology residency at the Case Western Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, and her fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Neurologic Diseases. Since 2001 she has served as the co-Director of the Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center, Boston. She is currently a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School since 2007. And in 2009 was named Jack, Sadie, and David Breakstone Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She won the Kuwait Prize for Immunology in 2007. In October 2012, she became the Director of the Abu Haidar Neuroscience Institute at AUBMC in Beirut and the director of the new AUBMC Multiple Sclerosis center.
Dr. Khoury has ongoing laboratory research funded through the NIH and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society that has focused on investigating the immune mechanisms in the animal model of Multiple Sclerosis and the interactions between the immune system and neural stem cells. Dr. Khoury is committed to translational research and is the Principal Investigator of the ACCLAIM multicenter clinical trial funded by the Immune Tolerance Network. She served as a member of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society study section and the CNBT study section at the National Institute of Health. She was elected to the American society of and the American Neurological Association in 2002, has been serving as the chair of the membership committee of the Clinical Immunology Society since 2009, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Khoury has authored numerous papers, reviews, and book chapters about MS and is on the editorial board of Multiple Sclerosis and section editor for Clinical Immunology.