The American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the world’s largest professional association of neurologists with more than 25,000 members, has elected Timothy A. Pedley, MD, FAAN, as its 33rd president. Pedley, president-elect of the AAN and a neurologist from New York, was elected today at the Academy’s 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego. Pedley succeeds Bruce Sigsbee, MD, FAAN, who has completed his two-year term as president.

“I’m honored to join the long line of distinguished neurologists who have served as president of the American Academy of Neurology,” said Pedley. “Over the past few decades, there have been extraordinary changes in how we teach, diagnose, investigate and treat diseases of the brain. I have witnessed and participated in the evolution of the Academy, seeing it grow in its capabilities and sophistication as an organization that provides valuable resources to meet the diverse needs of neurology professionals.”

Pedley is Professor of Neurology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and Attending Neurologist at the Neurological Institute of New York andNew York Presbyterian Hospital at the Columbia University Medical Center. He served as Chair of Columbia’s Department of Neurology and as Neurologist-in-Chief at the Neurological Institute from 1998 to 2011.

Pedley previously served as President of the American Neurological Association, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, the American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation of America where he was later Chairman of the Board. He also served as Chairman of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology. Pedley was Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsia, the international professional journal of epilepsy, from 1994 to 2001 and he also served on the Executive Committee of the International League Against Epilepsy. He was a member of the National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health from 2007 to 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007.

Source: AAN.