ABOUT
DR. DAVID KAUFMAN
Dr. David I. Kaufman served as the on-field neurologist for the Michigan State University football team for over 13 years. He is a tenured Professor and is the Founding Chair of the Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Michigan State University. He was recently appointed as the Assistant Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the Office of Health Science at MSU.
Dr. Kaufman received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then served as a Neurology resident and visual electrophysiology fellow at the University of Wisconsin. He was a Harvard Clinical Research Fellow while obtaining his neuroophthalmology training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been a practicing Neuro-Ophthalmologist at MSU for over 3 decades.
Dr. Kaufman has helped train eighty post-doctoral students and clinical research fellows in Neuro-Ophthalmology at MSU during that time. He has won more than 25 MSU teaching awards over the years along with one from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Kaufman’s research and clinical interest have included using the afferent visual system and visual electrophysiology to assess prognosis and early therapeutic strategies for brain disease such as multiple sclerosis and stroke. He has been cited in “Best Doctors” in Neurology multiple times over the last two decades.
He has had multiple NIH funded grants and participated on the Executive Committee or the Data and Safety Monitoring Committee of multiple clinical trials for the National Eye Institute. He has more than 160 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. These publications and his abstracts have typically focused on Neuro-Ophthalmology including several publications on mild traumatic brain injury. Those manuscripts focused on sports concussion and fMRI radiographic biomarkers to assist with prognosis. He now has directed his research toward Thyroid Eye Disease.
Dr. Kaufman recognizes his greatest accomplishments as meeting and marrying his wife, Laurie Kaufman, M.D, and helping to raise their two children, Matt and Sarah, to become college graduates and Spartan football fans.