Stephen Krieger

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About Stephen Krieger

Stephen Krieger, MD, FAAN, is a Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He graduated from Columbia College, and received his MD degree from Yale University. He completed his residency at Mount Sinai and MS fellowship at the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for MS. As a clinician educator, he served as neurology residency program director for ten years through 2019, and received numerous awards for education and mentorship including 5 consecutive annual mentorship awards as of 2023. His guiding philosophy – as a physician and an educator – is to “find the good” that can be done in every situation. He models the concept that an outstanding clinician is constantly searching for ways, great and small, to improve the lives of the people for whom they provide care. Dr. Krieger maintains a clinical practice at the CGDC for MS, where he received four Cullman Awards for excellence in physician-patient communication as of 2023. He has participated in numerous MS clinical trials and lectures nationally about MS with an emphasis on emerging therapies and MS disease course. Dr. Krieger proposed the Topographical Model of MS, a reconceptualization of Multiple Sclerosis clinical course that was published as the cover of Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, and was the subject of an article in Scientific American.