W. Dalton Dietrich III

Dr. Dalton Dietrich is Scientific Director at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Kinetic Concepts Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Anatomy from the Medical College of Virginia in 1979 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1981.

Dr. Dietrich has published over 375 refereed journal articles, 75 book chapters and 4 books. His published work has been cited over 38,000 times. He has been listed by the Institute of Scientific Information as a “Highly Cited Researcher”, placing him in the top 0.5% of all scientists based on the impact his research has made on other scientists. Dr. Dietrich has been a thesis/dissertation advisor to 9 graduate students and has trained over 50 postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars from all over the world. His research programs are supported by the NIH, Department of Defense, Veteran’s Administration, State of Florida and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. He serves on many study sections for NIH, Department of Defense, Veteran’s Administration, and several Editorial Boards. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Therapeutic Hypothermia & Temperature Management and Deputy Editor of the Journal of Neurotrauma. Dr. Dietrich is a founding member of InflamaCore and ACESO Therapeutics.