Valérie Biousse

 

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The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology is Valérie Biousse, M.D. Dr. Biousse is Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology and holds the Cyrus H. Stoner Professorship of Ophthalmology in the Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Biousse received her medical education at the Pitié-Salpêtriére Medical School in Paris, France, and a Masters in Neuroscience at Paris VI University in France. She did her Residency in Neurology, a Research Fellowship in the Neurosciences, and a Clinical Fellowship in Stroke in Paris. This was followed by a Research Fellowship in Neuro-Ophthalmology at the Emory Eye Center in Atlanta. She was an intern in Medicine at Emory University Hospital and did a Residency in Ophthalmology at Emory University Hospital. She is certified by the French Board of Neurology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. Her academic career began in the Department of Neurology Saint-Antoine Medical School. She joined the Faculty at Emory University in 1997 where she has been ever since. She is a distinguished neuro-ophthalmologist, educator, and scholar. She is presently on the editorial board of the Journal of Neuroophthalmology, Correspondances en Neurologie Vasculaire, and The American Journal of Ophthalmology. She is the Neuro-Ophthalmology editor of Reviews in Neurological Diseases. She is listed in Best Doctors in America.

Her research activities are in the management of optic neuritis and anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, giant cell arteritis, retinal migraine, anterior ischemic and optic neuropathy in the young; and the prognosis of idiopathic intracranial hypertension. She has mentored all of the contributors to this issue of Seminars in Neurology. She is continually asked to be Faculty of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the International Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting, the Neuro-Ophthalmic Society of Australia, the French Society of Ophthalmology, and the French Society of Neurology. She is Course Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology course at the American Academy of Neurology. She is an editor of a Blue Book of Neurology on Neuro-Ophthalmology and an editor of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology. She has published an incredible number of manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and contributed greatly to the literature in the form of book chapters. She has a book in preparation with Dr. Nancy Newman on Practical Neuro-Ophthalmology.

Dr. Biousse is truly one of the great neuro-ophthalmologists of all time, and we are delighted to have her as Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology. We owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Biousse and to all of the contributors to this volume of Seminars in Neurology for enhancing our understanding, and improving our care of patients with disorders of the most important of the human senses, vision.

Karen L RoosM.D. 

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