He graduated from Harvard College, received his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed neurology residency training and a cerebrovascular fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Neurology Training Program. He is a physician-scientist investigating novel treatment approaches including stem cell therapies for cerebrovascular disease and is the author of over 100 publications in the biomedical literature. Dr. Savitz oversees a bidirectional laboratory and clinical research program in stroke and is conducting some of the first clinical trials testing stem cell therapies in stroke. He is funded by grants from the National Institute of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Donald G. Stein, Ph.D.