Faculty & Staff

Dr. Dennis Bourdette, Chair and Roy & Eulalia Swank Family Research Professor, Department of Neurology at OHSU, is currently the Director of the OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center. The clinical and research staff includes eight neurologists (of which two are postdoctoral fellows), ten laboratory scientists, one research nurse and two research assistants. In addition, collaborations with many other departments and research centers at OHSU allow for a comprehensive group of scientists, physicians and healthcare providers to work together to find a cure for MS.

MS Clinic and Treatment Trials

Dennis Bourdette, M.D.
Edward Kim, M.D.
Michele Mass, M.D. 
Rebecca Spain, M.D.
Ruth Whitham, M.D.,M.P.H.
Vijayshree Yadav, M.D., M.C.R.

Michelle Cameron, M.D., P.T. Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Solomon, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Debbie Griffith, R.N., OHSU Research Nurse of the Year, 2009

Tykeson MS Research* and other Research Laboratories

*Gregory Burrows, Ph.D.
Dennis Bourdette, M.D.
Abigail Buenafe, Ph.D.
*Priya Chaudhary, Ph.D.
Yuan Chou, Ph.D.
Richard Jones, Ph.D. 
Gail Marracci, Ph.D.
Halina Offner, Ph.D.
*Arthur Vandenbark, Ph.D.
*Xiaolin Yu, M.S.

MS Fitness and Therapy

Cinda Hugos, M.S., P.T.
Amy Fielder, O.T..
Sabine Kaul-Connolly, O.T.
Amelia Caldwell , Speech Language Pathologist
Aimee Mooney, Speech Language Pathologist