Mark D'Esposito, M.D.

Dr. D'Esposito earned his medical degree at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and completed a residency in Neurology and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University Medical Center and Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. He was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he later became Chief of the Cognitive Neurology Division. In 2000, he was recruited to the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the...See more

Dr. D'Esposito earned his medical degree at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and completed a residency in Neurology and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at Boston University Medical Center and Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. He was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he later became Chief of the Cognitive Neurology Division. In 2000, he was recruited to the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley to become Professor of Neuroscience, and the Director of the newly created Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center. He also practices Neurology at the Northern California VA Medical Center. Dr. D'Esposito's research investigates the neural mechanisms underlying cognition, how the brain recovers from injury and potential treatments for the injured brain. He has over 375 research publications, written and edited six books, and received numerous competitive NIH research grants. He has trained over 75 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and received many clinical and academic awards. He is currently the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. See less