Jack S. Burks, MD
Jack Burks, MD is a board certified neurologist with over 30 years of experience in comprehensive care, research, and education in Multiple Sclerosis. He is the Chief Medical Officer of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America (MSAA), in Cherry Hill, NJ, and President of Burks & Associates Healthcare & Education Consultants in Reno, NV. He is also on the National Clinical Advisory Board of the National MS Society (NMSS).
Dr. Burks is an international leader in Multiple Sclerosis, Neurology, and chronic disease management. After a post doctoral fellowship in virology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School (Baltimore), Dr. Burks was a founder and president of one of the nation’s first comprehensive MS centers, the Rocky Mountain MS center at the University of Colorado Health Science center in the 1970’s. In the 1980’s he was a founder of the Colorado Neurological Institute with over 100 Neuroscientists, 3 hospitals and 23 tertiary Neuroscience programs. More recently he was a founder and Medical Director for the Renown Institute for Neuroscience in Reno, Nevada and Clinical Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at University of Nevada School of Medicine.
He has served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Neurology, where he headed their chronic disease management initiative, the American Society of Neurological Rehabilitation (Past President), and the Consortium of MS Centers.
He has edited/written three books on Multiple Sclerosis and published numerous scientific articles and reviews. He served as a Medical and Scientific Consultant to many healthcare related companies. He has lectured Internationally to health care professionals, patients, and the public throughout the world in over 35 countries on six continents.
