Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia is an American neurologist and clinical investigator. He is the John McCrae Dickson, MD Presidential professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Director of Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury Research, and Attending Neurologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Diaz-Arrastia is most known for his research on the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in neuronal injury and neurodegeneration. He has received the 1992 American Academy of Neurology Neuropharmacology Research Award and is a Zenith Fellow of the Alzheimers Association. His primary areas of research interest are focused on traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative disease. Provided by Wikipedia