David Greer, MD, MA, FANA
Boston University
Dr. David Greer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and the Richard B. Slifka Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center. He has been a neurointensivist since 2001, having trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he began his career. He later served as Vice Chair of Neurology at Yale from 2010 to 2017, before joining Boston University and Boston Medical Center in 2017.
Dr. Greer has been Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology since 2013 and was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Neurocritical Care on Call. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, chapters, guidelines, and books. He currently serves as Chair of the AAN Academic Neurology Committee and as Vice President of the Neurocritical Care Society, where he is slated to become President in 2025.
His research interests include predicting recovery from coma after cardiac arrest, brain death, and multiple stroke-related topics such as acute stroke treatment, temperature modulation, and stroke prevention. He was co-Principal Investigator for the international INTREPID study, evaluating fever prevention for acute vascular brain injury, and is a multiple R01-funded investigator focused on neuroprognosis after cardiac arrest. He was the lead author of the World Brain Death Project, published in JAMA in 2020, and the 2023 AAN Guidelines on Brain Death.
Dr. Greer’s greatest passion is education and mentorship. In 2022, he received the prestigious A.B. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award for Neurological Education from the American Academy of Neurology. He has mentored countless students, residents, fellows, and faculty, and considers himself a “lifelong mentor” to everyone he takes under his wing.