Department of Neurosurgery, Director of Neruotrauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Dr. J. Marc Simard is Professor of Neurosurgery, Pathology and Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Simard received MD/PhD degrees with a focus in neuroscience from Creighton University, did postdoctoral training in biophysics/neuroscience at Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, and completed Neurosurgery residency at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a board-certified clinical neurosurgeon with an active practice of vascular neurosurgery, and is an experienced investigative scientist responsible for the discovery of the SUR1-TRPM4 channel, and for initiating the work showing involvement of the channel in several acute CNS diseases.