John S. Stahl, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Site Director, Neurology Residency, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Specialty

Neuro-Otology

Education and Training

Residency: Case Western Reserve University (University Hospital of Cleveland, Cleveland VA), Cleveland, OH
Internship: New York University (Bellevue Hospital), New York, NY
Medical School: New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Graduate School: PhD, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Board Certification

Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Research Interests

Ocular motor, vestibular, and cerebellar physiology

Biography

Dr. John Stahl is a Professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and an attending neurologist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (LSCVAMC). He has been the LSCVAMC Site Director of the CWRU Neurology Residency continuously since 2003, and chaired the CWRU Neurology Department's Committee on Promotions and Tenure since 2012. A general neurologist, Dr. Stahl sees inpatients and outpatients at LSCVAMC. Reflecting his research activities, his special clinical interest is in patients with disorders of balance and eye movements.

Dr. Stahl received his MD-PhD from New York University in 1992. His dissertation research related to the contribution of the cerebellar flocculus to signal processing within the vestibulo-ocular circuitry. He resumed this work after completing his own neurology training at CWRU. He currently maintains a basic science laboratory in which he investigates the vestibular circuitry through recordings of eye movements and single neurons in normal mice, as well as mice carrying mutations in the genes for neuronal calcium channels. One of his laboratory's important contributions was developing the first reliable methods of recording eye movements in these tiny animals, an achievement that has led to the increasing popularity of the laboratory mouse as a model for investigating vestibular, cerebellar, and ocular motor physiology. During his tenure at CWRU, Dr. Stahl has also conducted research in human patterns of coordination of head movements with eye movements, and the use of image stabilization technology to improve vision in patients with involuntary eye movements.