James O. McNamara, MD
Scientific Advisory Board
James is Chairman of Duke University Medical Center's Department of Neurobiology, where he is a Professor of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Neurology. He became a Professor of Medicine in Neurology at Duke in 1985 and was named chair of the department in 2002. He also served as director of the Epilepsy Center of the Durham VA Medical Center and founded the Duke Center for the Advanced Study of Epilepsy. James is nationally known for his research into epileptogenesis, the process by which a normal brain becomes epileptic. He is the author of more than 125 scientific papers related to his research into the mechanisms by which a normal brain becomes epileptic. He is a member of the editorial board of Neuron and has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including two Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator awards from the National Institutes of Health and the Research Recognition Award from the American Epilepsy Society.