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DANIEL F. HANLEY, M.D.
Scientific Advisory Board, Encore Path, Inc.

Dr. Hanley is a graduate of Williams College and Cornell University Medical College.  His board certification is in Internal Medicine as well as Neurology and Psychiatry.  He is the founding Director and led for 17 years a combined Neurosurgery and Neurology Critical Care Unit at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes.  This unit became the regional center of excellence and an internationally recognized academic/research model.  Dr. Hanley is also a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.  In addition, he is Professor of Nursing at The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, and presently directs the Brain Injury Outcomes program at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He has significant experience in development of nationally recognized academic and training programs for physicians as well as nurses. 

As the Jeffrey Harriet Legum Professor of Acute Care Neurology, his expertise is in the area of acute brain disorders including: stroke, brain hemorrhage, coma and brain infections.  This includes the emergency management, preoperative, postoperative and long-term care of severe brain disorders.  In addition, Dr. Hanley has a 21-year research background in Neuroscience Research.  Specific areas include: basic physiology of circulatory regulation (particularly cerebral circulation), basic mechanisms of hypothalamic hormone regulation and release, as well as the investigation of normal and abnormal patterns of brain electrophysiologic response to injury. He has particularly focused on brain injury from cardiac arrest.  This experience applies directly to clinical pharmacology and clinical physiology in clinical trials involving traumatic, ischemic, hemorrhagic and infectious disorders of the brain. 

His clinical practice is in the area of acute brain disorders.  This has involved the primary care of patients undergoing intensive care treatment and monitoring for these brain disorders.  Dr. Hanley sees between 500-1000 new patients per year in the intensive care unit.   He is recognized as an expert in the areas of acute care for stroke, brain hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, coma, intracranial hypertension bacterial and viral brain infections.  In addition he cares for acute disorders of the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system producing paralysis and ventilator dependency, and has broad  international experience. 

He has extensive experience in clinical pharmacology trials and monitoring for safety/efficacy.  He has received more than 20 basic research grants,  predominantly from the National Institutes of Health, and he contributes to the scientific literature and has published more than 100 articles in peer reviewed journals.  His practical experience extends to commercial drug and device development, clinical practice organizations, model program development and fund raising.   Additionally, he has received multiple training awards directed at developing physician and nursing academicians.  He has edited five books and monographs on subject of acute brain injury. 

Dr. Hanley is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, American Physiologic Society, and the  Society of Critical Care Medicine.  He has received The Alexander Humboldt Research Prize for his accomplishments in Brain Injury Research.  He founded the critical care neurology section of the journal Critical Care Medicine and he is Associate Editor for this journal section.  He is also associate editor for Stroke (Section Emergency and Critical Care), and edits materials for several peer reviewed journals and hold important leadership roles in one major professional association and one national public service association.  He has developed nationally recognized education and model care delivery programs for the National Stroke Association.