2019 – Oct 5th -Dr. Gordon Smith, MD, Professor & Chair of the Department of Neurology at Virginia Commonwealth University. A huge crowd (80?) came to hear.

Dr. Smith’s NIH-funded research team focuses on peripheral neuropathy in diabetes, as well as obesity. He has a particular interest in bio-marker development and novel clinical trial design (i.e., how to test stuff with real people) in Peripheral Neuropathy.

He has recently been researching the use of an old medicine (topiramate) to treat pain in patients with idiopathic PN. Here is a PDF of his slides <PDF>