Kevin J Staley, MD

Kevin Staley received his MD degree from the University of California, San Diego. He was a granted a Dana Fellowship and completed his postdoctoral research training at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Staley studies neuronal ion transport in neonatal seizures and neural network dysfunction in epilepsy.

He has served as Co-Chair of the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Mechanisms of Epilepsy and Neuronal Synchronization, Chair of the Investigator's Workshop Committee and the Research and Training Committee of the American Epilepsy Society, as Chair of the Research Council and the Fellowship Selection Committee of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, Chair of the NINDS Board of Scientific Counselors, Co-Chair of the 2013 NINDS Curing Epilepsy Conference, and Co-Chair of the Workshop on Neurobiology of the Epilepsies (ILAE). 

In 2015 Dr. Staley was granted the Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the NINDS and the American Epilepsy Society Research Recognition Award for Basic Science. He is a Reviewing Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, serves on the Annals of Neurology Editorial Board and is Co-Director of the MGH Infant Brain Center.

He is currently the Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Child Neurology and Mental Retardation, Harvard Medical School.