John E. Greenlee MD

Dr. Greenlee received his MD from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1969. He served as intern in medicine, junior assistant resident in medicine, and resident in neurology at the University of Virginia Hospital, followed by a fellowship in neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was a member of the Neurology faculty at the University of Virginia from 1976 to 1986 and then joined the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1986 as Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurology, as well as Chief of the Neurology Service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. From 2002-2007 Dr. Greenlee served as Interim Chair of the Department of Neurology and from 2007 through 2022 as Professor and Executive Vice Chair and Vice Chair for Education, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2022. Dr Greenlee’s areas of specialty within neurology have been neurological infectious disease and autoimmune neurology. He has done extensive research into the pathogenesis of polyomavirus infections and was one of the first individuals to report the presence of antineuronal antibodies in patients with paraneoplastic central nervous system injury. His research over the years has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Greenlee has over 100 published articles and book chapters. He has served on multiple local and national committees, including advisory groups for neurology within the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.