Nicholas D. Schiff

Nicholas D. Schiff is a physician-scientist with an internationally recognised expertise in neurological disorders of consciousness. He is the Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience in the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr Schiff’s research efforts bridge basic neuroscience and clinical investigative studies of the pathophysiology of impaired consciousness using state-of-the-art neuroimaging and neurophysiological measurements. This research programe has provided several landmark contributions to the understanding of cerebral activity in severely brain-injured patients.