Mark D’Esposito

Dr. D’Esposito earned his medical degree in 1987 at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and completed clinical training in Neurology at Boston University Medical Center in 1991. After residency training, he was awarded an NIH Javits Fellowship to pursue research training at the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston University and Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. In 1993, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he later became Chief of the Cognitive Neurology Division. In 2000, he was recruited to the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, to become Professor of Neuroscience and the Founding Director of the newly created Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center, a position he held for 20 years. He also practices Neurology at the Northern California VA Medical Center. Dr. D’Esposito’s research investigates the neural mechanisms underlying cognition, how the brain recovers from injury, and potential treatments for brain injury. He has over 440 research publications, which have been cited over 90,000 times, written and edited seven books, and received numerous competitive NIH and private foundation research grants. He has trained over 80 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, 36 of whom have achieved tenure at universities in the United States and worldwide. He served as President of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, Chairman of the International Society for Human Brain Mapping, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience from 2003 to 2020. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2022, he received the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.