Jack M Parent, MD
Professor of Neurology

Jack M. Parent, M.D., is the William J. Herdman Professor of Neurology and co-director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the University of Michigan Medical School. His current research focuses on the fields of stem cell biology, including human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) disease modeling and adult neurogenesis, mechanisms of epileptogenesis and epilepsy complications, and regeneration after brain injury.

Dr. Parent received an A.B. with distinction in Human Biology at Stanford University and his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed medical internship, neurology residency, clinical fellowship training in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology, and post-doctoral training in neuroscience research at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2000, he joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan, where he established the Neurodevelopment and Regeneration Laboratory. He is also a staff physician at the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System.
 
Dr. Parent recently served as Secretary of the American Neurological Association and on the Board of Directors of the American Epilepsy Society. He also founded and co-chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the PCDH19 Alliance. Dr. Parent served for 9 years as a standing member on NIH study sections (CNNT and NST-1), frequently ad hocs on NIH study section, co-chairs the annual grant review for the Dravet Syndrome Foundation, and previously co-chaired the study section for the Epilepsy Foundation. He is the Chief Editor of Epilepsy Currents, recently ended a 5-year term as Epilepsy Section Editor of Experimental Neurology, and serves on the editorial boards of Brain Plasticity and the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
 
Dr. Parent has received several awards for his research, including a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Award, a Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award from the American Academy of Neurology, and a Grass Foundation Award in Neuroscience from the American Neurological Association. He was inducted into the University of Michigan Medical School League of Research Excellence and as a Taubman Institute Senior Scholar. Dr. Parent also directs the Human Stem Cell and Gene Editing Core for Michigan Medicine (https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/human-stem-cell-and-gene-editing-core-facility/home). This core assists other labs with disease modeling using hPSCs.

Interests
Research Interests:
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) disease modeling, neural stem cells, mechanisms of epileptogenesis and brain regeneration, epileptogenesis, and brain plasticity after stroke. For more information, please visit his lab web site.

​Clinical Interests:
Epilepsy surgery, electroencephalography and Video-EEG seizure monitoring, and stroke-induced neurogenesis.

​Personal Interests:

Credentials
Medical School or Training
  • Yale School of Medicine, 1990
Residency
  • UCSF Medical Center, Neurology, CA, 1994
Fellowship
  • Neurophysiology, UCSF Medical Center, 1996
Board Certification
  • Neurology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology