Howard L. Weiner, MD, is the Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is founder and director of the Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center at the Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston and co-director of the Center for Neurological Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Weiner has been on the forefront of developing new therapies for MS for more than 25 years. He has written widely in the scientific literature on multiple sclerosis and is the author of The Children's Ward, a novel, and Neurology for the House Officer, a medical text now in its seventh edition. He lives with his wife in Brookline, Mass.