Karen L. Roos

[]Beginning with the first issue of 2002, Seminars in Neurology is delighted and honored to have Karen L. Roos, M.D. serve us as Co-Editor in Chief of the journal. A great deal can be said with reference to Dr. Roos and her role with Seminars in Neurology. She is a wonderfully skilled editor for medical writing, particularly of the type that requires clear and practical communication to clinicians. She is a far better editor than I ever hope to be; recruiting her to serve in this capacity for Seminars in Neurology represents a huge accomplishment on the part of the journal.

Karen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. She then moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where she was a medical intern at the University of Virginia, then resident neurologist under T.R. Johns. Dr. Roos took her first postgraduate post at Indiana University School of Medicine, where she has rapidly risen through the ranks, and is now the John and Nancy Nelson Professor of Neurology. Dr. Roos owns the distinction of being the first named Professor of Neurology at Indiana. She has served the American Neurological Association on the Long Range Planning Committee as well as the Membership Committee, and she is Subcommittee Chair on Associates and Fellows for the American Academy of Neurology.

Karen has received numerous honors throughout her career including being named Outstanding Professor in Clinical Medicine in Neuroscience multiple times at Indiana University; receiving the Gender Equity Award at Indiana University; receiving the IUPUI Commission on Women Recognition Award in April 2000; and in 2001 she became a member of the Alliance of Distinguished Rank Professors at Indiana University.

Her editorial work is well established. She is the Editor of Central Nervous System Infectious Diseases and Therapy, published by Marcel Dekker in 1997. She has authored a remarkable book, Meningitis: 100 Maxims in Neurology, published by Hodder and Stoughton in Kent, England in 1996. Readers of Seminars in Neurology know her for some of the most highly successful issues dealing with central nervous system infections in 1992 and again in 2000. She served as Chair of the Continuum issue dealing with neurologic disorders in pregnancy, published in 2000. Continuing her long history of involvement with Continuum, she is currently serving as Associate Editor. She is also Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences and Section Editor of Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases in Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice and Central Nervous System Infections in Neurologia Clinica.

Dr. Roos serves on the editorial boards of Neurology, Continuum, and CNS Drugs.

She is the course director of the Infections of the Central Nervous System course at the American Academy of Neurology and is director of the CNS Infectious Diseases section in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. Karen is a prolific reviewer for all of the major neurological journals. She has authored over 100 papers or chapters along with 16 syllabi for the American Academy of Neurology. Her research interests are in the arena of central nervous system infections.

Outside of the medical center Dr. Roos has devoted her time to raising two spectacular and darling teenage daughters, Annie and Jan. We all are delighted to have Karen L. Roos serve as Co-Editor in Chief of Seminars in Neurology, and we know that the readers and our profession will gain tremendously.