Course Director

Scott Newsome, DO, MSCS, FAAN, FANA, specializes in the care of patients with neuroimmunological and neuroinflammatory disorders of the central nervous system. He has special interest in evaluating and treating patients with multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica, and stiff person syndrome. Dr. Newsome works within the division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He joined the Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis centers after completing his fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital with the support of a Sylvia Lawry Physician Fellowship from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is currently the director of the Johns Hopkins Neurosciences Consultation and Infusion Center and Stiff Person Syndrome Center. Dr. Newsome is also director of the Johns Hopkins Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infectious Disease Fellowship Program and co-director of the Multiple Sclerosis Experimental Therapeutics Program.

Dr. Newsome’s main research focuses on helping identify and test novel therapies and therapeutic strategies in multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunological disorders. In addition, other research endeavors include validating the use of new quantitative clinical outcome measures and imaging techniques in multiple sclerosis and identifying risk factors of disease onset and severity, response to treatment, and long-term outcomes in neuroimmunological disorders. Dr. Newsome is also past-president of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers, an advisor for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a steering committee member of the International MS Differential Diagnosis Consortium, founder and chair of the International Stiff Person Syndrome Consortium, and a member of the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence.

Andrew J. Solomon, MD, is a professor of neurological sciences and division chief of the Multiple Sclerosis at the University of Vermont (UVM), Larner College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont. At the UVM Multiple Sclerosis Center, in addition to caring for patients with multiple sclerosis and having leadership roles at the Multiple Sclerosis Center, Dr. Solomon is an investigator on numerous local and national clinical and translational studies focused on multiple sclerosis. Dr. Solomon also has been recognized nationally and internationally for his research, which focuses on diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis. His current work focuses on the evaluation of novel imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

Lisa M. Fox, PA-C, is a senior physician assistant working in neurology since 2003. She graduated from Marquette University with her master of physician assistant studies and began practicing as a physician assistant in general neurology with a special focus in stroke. She then moved back east and worked as an outpatient neurology physician assistant in Annapolis, Maryland, followed by a role as a medical science liaison with Novartis Pharmaceuticals in multiple sclerosis. She missed clinical practice and joined the Johns Hopkins Neuroimmunology team in multiple sclerosis in 2016. She is now the senior physician assistant with the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and the assistant director of the Johns Hopkins Neurosciences Consultation and Infusion Center at Green Spring Station.