Lauren Reoma, MD
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Dr. Lauren B. Reoma is a Staff Clinician who supports the intramural NINDS program as Deputy Clinical Director and Director of the NINDS Clinical Trials Unit. She is a board-certified neurologist who received her medical degree from and completed her neurology residency at the University of Florida College of Medicine. At NIH, she trained as a Clinical Fellow in the NINDS Neuroimmunology and Neurovirology Program where she completed additional training in Clinical Trials Methodology, Clinical Investigator Training, as well as rotated briefly through the Division of Neurology Products, CDER, FDA. She is the intramural fellowship director for the NINDS-FDA Division of Neurology Clinical Trials Methodology and Regulatory Science Fellowship in conjunction with CDER/FDA and extramural NINDS. Within NIH, she is a member of the NIH Institutional Review Board, the NIH Biosafety Committee, and oversees the NINDS central Data and Safety Monitoring Board. She is also the Vice Chair of the AAN’s Experimental Neurotherapeutics Section and a member of the program committee of ASENT. Her research focuses on understanding the CNS viral reservoir as well as on developing practices for gold-standard early-phase clinical trials methodology and regulatory science in neurologic disease.