Olaf Stuve, M.D., Ph.D.

Joined UT Southwestern: 2005

Dr. Olaf Stuve is a Professor in the Department of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Head of the MS/ Neuroimmunology section, and Chief of Neurology at the VA North Texas Health Care System/ Dallas VA Medical Center. At the Dallas VA Medical Center, he attends to US veterans with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurological disorders.

Research: Dr. Stuve has been the Principal Investigator and site Principal Investigator for numerous clinical trials.  Dr. Stuve also runs a research laboratory at UT Southwestern, studying the differential molecular requirements for bone-marrow-derived leukocytes to cross the blood-brain barrier or other biological barriers that provide immune privilege for the central nervous system (CNS).  He is also exploring molecular and cellular differences between bone-marrow-derived myeloid cell subsets and CNS-intrinsic microglia, and the potential pathogenic role of innate immune cells in early and late MS.  Furthermore, Dr. Stuve's research interests include molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity, and experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders and has numerous ongoing collaborations with national and international investigators.

Dr. Stuve’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. He has published over 300 research articles, review articles, editorials, and book chapters, and has given over 200 invited presentations. Dr. Stuve has served on numerous editorial boards of medical and scientific journals and has been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NMSS, and VA study sections.  Dr. Stuve is a past associate editor of JAMA Neurology and a past steering committee member of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN).

Trainee Education: Dr. Stuve has received numerous clinical teaching awards. Dr. Stuve has mentored undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, residents, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty.  

Awards: He is an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society, and he is a recipient of a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and a Grant for Multiple Sclerosis Innovation (GMSI) from Merck KGaA.   Dr. Stuve was elected Top Provider in Neurology at the VA North Texas Health Care System repeatedly by physician peers across medical and surgical specialties, and he has been listed in D Magazine's Best Doctors list.

Background: Dr. Stuve received his medical degree from the Free University of Berlin, completed a medical doctoral thesis in physiology at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin magna cum laude, and earned a Ph.D. in immunology in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at Maastricht University.  He completed a transitional internship at the University of Cape Town, and a preliminary internship and neurology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle.  Dr. Stuve also received postdoctoral fellowship training in neuroimmunology at McGill University in Montreal, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).