Kevin Tracey

Kevin Tracey is president of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and professor of molecular medicine and neurosurgery at the Zucker School of Medicine. He is a leader in the study of the molecular basis of inflammation.

Dr. Tracey and his colleagues identified the neural mechanism for controlling the immunological responses to infection and injury, and developed devices to replace anti-inflammatory drugs in clinical trials of rheumatoid arthritis — a burgeoning field termed bioelectronic medicine.

Since 1992 he has directed the Laboratory of Biomedical Science in Manhasset, where in 2005 he was appointed president of the Feinstein Institutes. He lectures nationally and internationally on inflammation, sepsis, the neuroscience of immunity and bioelectronic medicine. He is the author of Fatal Sequence (Dana Press) and more than 320 scientific papers.