Olaf Stuve, M.D., Ph.D.

Olaf Stuve, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief of Neurology, Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center

  • Neurology

Biography

Dr. Olaf Stuve is a Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and Chief of Neurology at the VA North Texas Health Care System/ Dallas VA Medical Center.  In addition to his clinical activities, he has been the site Principal Investigator and Consultant for numerous clinical trials.  He also runs a research laboratory at UT Southwestern.  His research interests include molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity, immune tolerance, and experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders, and he has numerous ongoing collaborations with national and international investigators.  He has mentored undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows.

Dr. Stuve’s research has been supported by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.  He has published over 200 research articles, review articles, editorials, and book chapters.  

Dr. Stuve is a fellow of the American Neurological Association (FANA), and the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN). He is an elected member of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society.  

He has served on numerous editorial boards of medical and scientific journals, and has been a member of National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NMSS study sections.  Dr. Stuve is a past associate editor of JAMA Neurology, and a past steering committee member of the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN).

He received his medical degree from the Free University of Berlin, completed a medical doctoral thesis in physiology at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin magna cum laude, and earned a Ph.D. in immunology in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology at Maastricht University.  He completed a transitional internship at the University of Cape Town, and a preliminary internship and neurology residency at the University of Washington in Seattle.  Dr. Stuve also received postdoctoral fellowship training in neuroimmunology at McGill University in Montreal, and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Dr. Stuve has received numerous clinical teaching awards and was included in D Magazine's Best Doctors list for 2018.

Education & Training
  • Medical School - Freie University Berlin, Medicine
  • Medical School - Max Delbruck Center for Molecu, Physiology
  • Graduate School - Maastricht University, Immunology
Honors & Awards
  • Magna cum laude M.D. thesis 1994, Free University of Berlin, Germany
  • Postdoctoral fellowship grant 1995, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany
  • H.-L. Teuber price 1996, The Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal
  • Advanced postdoctoral fellowship grant 2000, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS)
  • Postdoctoral scholarship 2001, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
  • Clinical Scientist Development Award 2009, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • Clinical Teaching Award Neurology 2007, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Class of 2008
  • Alpha Omega Alpha (ΑΩΑ) Honor Medical Society 2013, Honorary member, Texas Gamma Chapter
Books & Publications
Research
  • Molecular and cellular markers of autoimmunity
  • Immune tolerance
  • Experimental therapies for autoimmune disorders