University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Peter B. Crino M.D., Ph.D. is the Dr. Richard and Kathryn Taylor Endowed Professor and Chair of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University, M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine (cum laude, Alpha Omega Alpha), and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Boston University. He completed medical internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and neurology residency and clinical epilepsy fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Crino was a Howard Hughes Physician Post-Doctoral Fellow (1994-1997) and received the Esther A. and the Joseph Klingenstein Research Award in Neuroscience (1999). He served as the Director of the Penn Comprehensive Epilepsy and the Temple University Epilepsy Centers. He currently directs the Clinical Center for Adults with Neuro-Developmental Disabilities (CCAND) and the nationally recognized Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Center of Excellence at University of Maryland. He received a Lifetime Service Award from the TSC Alliance and the Inaugural Fritz Dreifuss Award for Translational Research in Epilepsy from the American Epilepsy Society (2016). In 2021, he received a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. He was President of the Philadelphia Neurological Society (2015-2016). He served as Chair, Board of Directors, of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (2020-2022). Dr. Crino has maintained a continuously NIH-funded translational research program studying developmental brain malformations linked to epilepsy, autism, and intellectual disabilities for the past 25 years. Dr. Crino has >170 published papers, reviews, and book chapters.
