Robert Lisak, M.D.

Robert Lisak, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, has been appointed to the editorial board of Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, a new journal based in Japan.

Dr. Lisak, who also serves as editor in chief of the Journal of Neurological Science – the journal of the World Federation of Neurology – is one of only four United States-based physicians and scientists on the new publication’s editorial board.

“This is another recognition of the international reputation of the Wayne State University Department of Neurology and of its research and clinical programs in immunologically mediated diseases of the nervous system, including multiple sclerosis and related disorders, myasthenia gravis and dysimmune peripheral neuropathies,” Dr. Lisak said of his appointment.

He also is a member of the editorial board of Clinical Neuropharmacology, the journal of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Immunology Research.

Dr. Lisak specializes in multiple sclerosis and related autoimmune diseases, and is an expert in neuromuscular disorders such myasthenia gravis, inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies and inflammatory myopathies. He also specializes in neurologic complications of collagen-vascular diseases (lupus) and vasculitis.