Dr. Howard L. Weiner
Dr. Howard L. Weiner is the director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program at the Partners MS Center in Boston, Mass. He is a 1969 graduate of University of Colorado School of Medicine. He did his internship in 1970 at Tel Hashomer Hospital, Israel, where he was Rotating Intern. He completed his residency for medicine in 1971 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He went on to continue his residency in neurology at Longwood Area Neurology Program, HMS, Boston. Dr. Weiner has had numerous fellowships including: Harvard Medical School Clinical Fellow,1971, Harvard Medical School Neurology, 1974, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Fellowships, 1974, University of Colorado Medical Center Research in Immunology, 1976 and MS Colorado Multiple Sclerosis Society Research Fellow, MS also in 1976.
At the Partners MS Center the study of MS has entered a new era with a ten year study that will involve over 1,000 MS patients. With FDA-approved disease modifying therapy now given to the majority of MS patients early in the course of the disease and the advent of MRI imaging, MS has entered an era that has yet to be systematically investigated. Major questions are unanswered, including how does treatment affect the long-term clinical course of the disease and are there major subcategories of the disease with different implications for treatment and outcome. Advances in the ability to clinically measure and monitor the disease (MRI, immunology, genetics) provide the opportunity to address these critical questions.The studies goal is to establish a new definition of the course of MS that will serve as a benchmark for the future and will have a major impact on the care of MS patients and MS clinical research. Patients will undergo yearly neurologic assessments, advanced MRI imaging and collection of blood specimens. The natural history study is possible due to the unique resources of the recently established Partners MS Center. To his credit, Dr Weiner also speaks five languages.
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