Lauren B. Krupp, M.D.
Director, National Pediatric MS Center

Dr. Lauren Krupp received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed her Neurology Residency at Albert Einstein and Montefiore Medical Center and then completed additional fellowship training at the Neuro-immunology/Multiple Sclerosis Branch of the National Institutes of Health.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.  
 
Dr. Krupp is currently a Professor of Neurology and Psychology at Stony Brook University Medical Center and specializes in multiple sclerosis. She is the director of the National Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center at Stony Brook having pioneered the first Center in the United States to treat children and adolescents with MS.   The Center has been designated as a Center Of Excellence by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Krupp was the first chair leader of a steering committee of a network of six centers nationwide committed to sharing advancements, better practices and to collaborate so that every child with MS and their family can benefit from the collective knowledge of the entire network.
 
Dr. Krupp also co-directs the adult MS Center at Stony Brook and directs a research program that covers the relations between fatigue, mood disturbance, and cognitive dysfunction in MS.     
 
Other projects include studies of children and adolescents with MS, evaluation and     treatment of MS-associated cognitive problems and fatigue.  She has received millions of dollars in grant support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the National Institutes of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, private foundations and pharmaceutical companies.  She has published more than 100 original articles or chapters in books and is an internationally acknowledged authority in multiple sclerosis.