Benjamin Greenberg, M.D.
Titles and Appointments
Vice Chair of Clinical & Translational Research
Professor
- Endowed Title
- Cain Denius Scholar in Mobility Disorders; Distinguished Teaching Professor
- School
- Medical School
- Department
- Neurology | Pediatrics
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Joined UT Southwestern: 2009
Clinical Interests: Dr. Greenberg is recognized internationally as an expert in rare autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system (e.g. transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica, ADEM, and autoimmune encephalitis). He splits his clinical time between seeing both adult and pediatric patients. He routinely consults on the inpatient units of Clements University Hospital, Parkland, and Children’s.
Research: His research interests are in both the diagnosis and treatment of transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica, encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, and infections of the nervous system. He is actively involved in developing better ways to diagnose and prognosticate for and treat patients with these disorders. He has led an effort to improve biorepository development and has created uniform protocols for sample handling and analysis. As part of this initiative, his research has identified novel biomarkers that may be able to distinguish between patients with various neurologic disorders. He also coordinates Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 trials that study new treatments to prevent neurologic damage and restore function to those who have already been affected.
Leadership: He currently serves as the Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research for the Department of Neurology. When he joined UT Southwestern, he was named Deputy Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program and Director of the new Transverse Myelitis and Neuromyelitis Optica Program. That same year he established the Pediatric Demyelianting Disease Program at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
Background: Dr. Benjamin Greenberg received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Masters Degree in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Then, he completed an internship in medicine at Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois before going on to his residency in neurology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He then joined the faculty within the Division of Neuroimmunology at Hopkins and became the co-director of the Transverse Myelitis Center and director of the Encephalitis Center. In January of 2009 he was recruited to the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
