Dennis Choi

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Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D., (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the Jones Professor and head of neurology at the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury at Washington University in St. Louis was part of the team that treated Christopher Reeves following the actor's notorious spinal cord injury. At the end of 2001 he left the full-time faculty to join Merck Research Labs. Choi resigned from his position at Merck in 2006.

Choi grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts, attended Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1974, then went on to Harvard University and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, receiving an MD and a PhD in Pharmacology in 1978. He currently sits on the boards of a number of national health and science-related organizations, and has published several papers in prominent journals, including Science and the Journal of Neuroscience.