Prof. Ron Milo

Prof. Ron Milo served, until recently, as the Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Prof. Milo obtained his medical degree from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. He completed his training in neurology at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, and a research fellowship in neuroimmunology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where he studied immunomodulation in MS. He is involved in basic and clinical research in MS, and has accumulated more than 35 years of experience in conducting clinical trials in MS and other neurological conditions.

His scientific and clinical interests include the immunology of MS, new therapies, immunomodulation, cognitive dysfunction and the conduction of clinical trials in MS. He is the Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Israel MS Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). He is also the co-chair of the Management Group of the Scientific Panel on MS of the EAN, and a member of the Council of the European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) and the International Medical and Scientific Board (IMSB) of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF).