Derek Stitt, MD, and Justin McArthur MBBS, MPH, FAAN

The Guest Editors of this issue of Seminars in Neurology are Drs. Derek Stitt and Justin McArthur.

Dr. Stitt is Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN in the Department of Neurology, Division of Neurology Education. He completed medical school at the University of Kentucky prior to neurology residency at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, where he was named Chief Resident and received the Henry Woltman Award for clinical excellence. Since 2018, he has been a full-time practicing academic general neurologist with a strong interest in neurologic education. He is the director of the neurology residency continuity clinic. He is also a member of the core neuroscience faculty for the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine as well as the Mayo Clinic Physician Assistant training program. His department awarded him Teacher of the Year in 2020. He has additional interest in neurotoxicology, serving as recent faculty for the CNS Toxicities course at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, as well as authoring a Continuum article on “Drugs of Abuse and the Nervous System.” In 2023 he was awarded the Department of Neurology Faculty Service Award, as well as an American Academy of Neurology AB Baker Teacher Recognition Award. He is clearly a rising star in our field, and a gifted medical educator.

Dr. Justin C. McArthur is the John W. Griffin endowed chair of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins University. He received his medical degree from Guys Hospital Medical School at the University of London. He then completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. McArthur stayed at Johns Hopkins to complete a second residency in Neurology and to achieve a Master's degree in public health. Now a Professor of Neurology, Pathology, Medicine, and Epidemiology, Dr. McArthur has become nationally and internationally recognized for his work in the epidemiology and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological infections and immune-mediated neurological disorders. He has been instrumental in the design and conduct of numerous clinical trials for these disorders. Dr. McArthur is currently the Director of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins, a role in which he has served since 2008, and was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins/National Institute of Mental Health Research Center for Novel Therapeutics of HIV-associated Cognitive Disorders. He has been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians.

We greatly appreciate the efforts of Drs. Stitt and McArthur, as well as all of the contributing authors, for their wonderful work in this issue of Seminars on the Neurology of Substance Use. We have not previously had an issue dedicated to this important topic, and I am so very proud that Drs. Stitt and McArthur could place a spotlight on this increasingly important issue in Neurology. I am personally grateful for the efforts of Drs. Stitt and McArthur to see this issue through to completion, as underserved populations are disproportionately affected by the neurology of substance use, and we need to make every effort to ensure all people everywhere are able to receive the neurological care and attention that they deserve. We hope you enjoy this marvelous issue!

Publication History

Article published online:
16 July 2024