Geoff Ling

Dr. Ling is a professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and an attending neurocritical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He serves as the Jean Ann Brock BrainHealth Project Co-Leader, a landmark study led by the Center for BrainHealth.
Geoff is a retired U.S. Army colonel who treated injured service members at combat support hospitals in Afghanistan and Iraq. Later, he returned to assess TBI care in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was a “requested by name” consultant to Congresswoman Gabby Gifford’s trauma team following her tragic attack.
He was the founding director of the Biological Technologies Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His program portfolio includes research to prevent explosive neurologic trauma, a predictive model for TBI recovery, and brain-controlled prosthetics. He served as the assistant director for medical innovation in President Obama’s White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy (OSTP).
He received his BA (cum laude) at Washington University in St Louis, his MD (elected to Alpha Omega Alpha) at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and his PhD in neuropharmacology at Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences.