Olaf Stuve
Dr. Olaf Stuve
Dr. Olaf Stuve is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Chief of Neurology at the VA North Texas Health Care System/ Dallas VA Medical Center. His research interests include molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity, immune tolerance, and experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders, and he has numerous ongoing collaborations with national and international investigators.
Dr. Stuve’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He has published over 200 research articles, review articles, editorials, and book chapters. Dr. Stuve is a fellow of the American Neurological Association (FANA), and the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN), and an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society. Dr. Stuve has received numerous clinical teaching awards. Dr. Stuve is a past associate editor of JAMA Neurology, and a past steering committee member of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN).
He completed his pre-clinical studies at the University of Wurzburg, received his medical degree from the Free University of Berlin, completed a medical doctoral thesis in physiology at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin magna cum laude, and earned a Ph.D. in immunology in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at Maastricht University. He completed a transitional internship at the University of Cape Town, and a preliminary internship and neurology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Stuve also received postdoctoral fellowship training in neuroimmunology at McGill University in Montreal, and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Stuve has received numerous clinical teaching awards. He has been elected Top Provider in Neurology at the VA North Texas Health Care System by physician peers across medical and surgical specialties and he has been listed in D Magazine’s Best Doctors list.
