Bruce Ransom, MD, PhD
Chair, UW Medicine Neurology Department; UW Professor of Neurology
Dr. Ransom is the chair of the UW Medicine Neurology Department and a UW professor of neurology. He is an expert in general neurology and sub-specializes in movement disorder conditions, such as Parkinson disease.
He also conducts research on the cellular mechanisms of brain injury due to stroke and the function of non-neuronal brain cells called glial cells.
Dr. Ransom earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri. After an internship at Washington University, he did research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland for three years. He trained in neurology at Stanford University.
He was a faculty member in neurology at Stanford and Yale Universities before he moved to the UW in 1995 to become the founding chair of the Department of Neurology. He has an adjunct appointment as professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, a member of the American Neurological Association and is board certified in neurology. He is a past president of the Association of University Professors of Neurology. He has lectured widely on topics related to his research and clinical interests.
