M. Elizabeth Ross, MD, PhD, FANA
Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience and President of the American Neurological Association. At Weill Cornell Medicine, she directs the Center for Neurogenetics, a translational hub for study of neurological disorders in children and adults. The Center has both basic science and clinical arms and operates a sample biobank that supports translational research at Cornell. Her own research group focuses on genetic drivers of neurological disease in development and aging. Studies use biochemical, cell biological, human stem cell and mouse genetic tools, coupled with clinical genetics, to pursue how sequence variation-in one or multiple genes together-causes impaired brain function.