Stephen L. Hauser, M.D.

Neurologist and immunologist

Dr. Stephen Hauser is chair of Neurology at UCSF and a leader in the international effort to identify genetic causes of multiple sclerosis (MS). He is the first physician-researcher to demonstrate a promising weapon against progressive MS. He identified the benefit of immunosuppression that prevents the body's immune system from attacking the myelin sheath, the insulation that surrounds the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.

Hauser joined UCSF in 1992 as chair of Neurology. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and in immunology at Harvard Medical School and Institute Pasteur in Paris. He is a fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and American Association of Physicians, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a former president of the American Neurological Association and an editor of the textbook, "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine." He is the Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Neurology in the UCSF School of Medicine.

• Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

• Devic's Disease

• Optic Neuritis