About Us
The Neurology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital began with James Jackson Putnam who became Lecturer on the Application of Electricity in Nervous Diseases in 1872.
Dr. Anne B. Young arrived at MGH to assume the Dorn Professorship and the position as Chief of the MGH Neurology Service in August 1991. She inherited a large and vigorous Neurology Department with a strong tradition of excellence in basic research targeting clinical diseases. In 1995 Drs. Anne B. Young and Martin A. Samuels (Chair, Brigham and Women's Hospital) established the Partners Neurology Service that leads in establishing joint and common programs to promote quality improvement and efficiency. And in 2001 the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease was founded by and is directed by Dr. Young with a mission to translate laboratory discoveries into prevention, treatment and cures for Alzheimer’s, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Driven by a sense of urgency due to our nation’s burgeoning aging population, MIND seeks to accelerate therapies that lessen the devastating toll of disease on patients and families.Dr. Young has since continued this tradition and strengthened the research, patient care and teaching capabilities of the Department.
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