Dr. David Greer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and the Richard B. Slifka Chief of Neurology at Boston Medical Center. He has been a neurointensivist since 2001, having trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he began his career. He was then Vice Chair at Yale from 2010-17, before joining Boston University and Boston Medical Center in 2017.

Dr. Greer has been editor-in-chief of Seminars in Neurology since 2013, and was the inaugural editor-in-chief for Neurocritical Care on Call. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, chapters, guidelines, and books. He is the Chair of the AAN Academic Neurology Committee and is the current Vice President for the Neurocritical Care Society.

His research interests include predicting recovery from coma after cardiac arrest, brain death, and multiple stroke-related topics, including acute stroke treatment, temperature modulation, and stroke prevention. He is the co-PI for the INTREPID study, evaluating fever prevention for acute vascular brain injury, and is a multiple R01-funded investigator focusing on neuroprognosis after cardiac arrest. He was the lead author for the World Brain Death Project published in JAMA in 2020, and for the 2023 AAN Guidelines in Brain Death.

Dr. Greer’s greatest passion is in education and mentorship. In 2022, he received the prestigious A.B. Baker Lifetime Achievement Award for Neurological Education from the American Academy of Neurology. He has mentored innumerable students, residents, fellows, and faculty, and considers himself a “lifelong mentor” for anyone and everyone he takes under his wing.