S. Thomas Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Neurology
Member, Brain Research Institute
Neuroscience GPB Home Area

Awards and Honors:

Washington University Medical Center Barnes Jewish Hospital UCLA School of Medicine

Biography

S. Thomas (Tom) Carmichael is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Carmichael is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Neurology Department, with active laboratory and clinical interests in stroke and neurorehabilitation, and brain repair after injury. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in 1993 and 1994, and completed a Neurology residency at Washington University School of Medicine, serving as Chief Resident in 1997-1998. Dr. Carmichael was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at UCLA from 1998-2001, studying mechanisms of axonal sprouting, with a clinical emphasis on neurorehabilitation and stroke. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 2001. Dr. CarmichaelÂ’s laboratory studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural repair after stroke and other forms of brain injury. This research focuses on the processes of axonal sprouting and neural stem cell responses after stroke, and on neural stem cell transplantation. Dr. Carmichael is an attending physician on the Neurorehabilitation and Stroke clinical services at UCLA.