Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD

Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD is professor and chair of the Departments of Neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He is the Ruth Dunietz Kushner and Michael Jay Serwitz Chair in Multiple Sclerosis and he also directs the Robert Wood Johnson Center for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). In addition, Dr. Dhib-Jalbut serves as the chief of neurology at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility.

Dr. Dhib-Jalbut graduated Alpha-Omega-Alpha from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and completed his Neurology training at the University of Cincinnati. He then joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, where he specialized in MS and Neuroimmunology.

Dr. Dhib-Jalbut’s extramurally funded research includes how MS therapies work, biomarkers of treatment response in MS, and neuroprotective gene therapy. To date, he has contributed more than 130 manuscripts to the scientific literature. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of Neuroimmunology and is currently associate editor of the MS Journal and a member of the Editorial Boards of JICR, Cytokine, and Multiple Sclerosis. He has served on several national and international scientific committees, including chairmanship of the Scientific Committee for the World Congress on MS in 2008. Dr. Dhib-Jalbut served as president of the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in MS (ACTRIMS) and presided over the largest international MS Congress held in Boston in 2014. Dr. Dhib-Jalbut has been on the Best Doctors in America list since 2009 and has received several awards and recognitions, including the Norman H. Edelman clinical science mentoring award at Rutgers, the Medical Excellence Award from the National MS Society, the Outstanding Medical Scientist Award from the Edward J. Ill Excellence in Medicine Foundation, and the Excellence in Research Award from the New Jersey Health Foundation.