Professor George Jelinek is Professor and Founder of the Neuroepidemiology Unit (NEU) within the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne.  The NEU’s charter is to investigate the modifiable lifestyle risk factors that predict the progression of MS with a view to refining a preventive medicine approach to management of the disease.

He was the first Professor of Emergency Medicine in Australasia and Founding Editor of the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia, a MEDLINE-indexed journal that he has edited continuously for nearly 30 years. 

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis he turned his attention there, and he is currently the Chief Editor in neuroepidemiology for the leading MEDLINE-indexed neurology journal Frontiers in Neurology.

Website/book = https://overcomingms.org/ 

Conflicts of Interest = He receives royalties for the book.

 

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