Roy Freeman, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Roy Freeman is Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Autonomic and Peripheral Nerve Disorders in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the past President of the American Autonomic Society, past chairman of the World Federation of Neurology research group on the autonomic nervous system, and past chairman of the Autonomic Section of the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Freeman is Editor of Autonomic Neuroscience – Basic and Clinical and on the editorial board of the Clinical Autonomic Research and Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System. His research encompasses the autonomic complications of neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy; biomarker development in neurological diseases; the diagnosis and treatment of autonomic and peripheral nervous system disorders; neuropathic pain and the neurological complications of diabetes. He has over 300 publications. He is/has been principal investigator principal investigator on National Institutes of Health-funded and studies on cutaneous biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease, the neurological complications of diabetes, mechanisms of spinal cord stimulator efficacy, and the neurobiology of stress.