Leonard E. White, PhD is a neuroscientist and an educator with more than three decades of service to Duke University. His research is focused on the structure and function of brain networks, with a particular focus on how aging and age-associated disease impacts their integrity and connectivity. As an educator, he teaches medical neuroscience and clinical neuroanatomy in the School of Medicine, in Trinity College, and online, where he teaches one of the most popular and highly rated courses that reaches people from all walks of life all over the world. On campus, Dr. White serves in numerous administrative positions, including serving as an academic advisor to MBS students, an Associate Director of the Master of Biomedical Sciences, the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience, an Associate Director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, the Neuroscience Coordinator for Medical Education, and a Faculty-in-Residence on Duke’s East Campus.

Leonard E. White, PhD is a neuroscientist with an active research career and numerous educational and administrative duties across the university. In the MBS program, he is an instructor in medical neuroscience and functional neuroanatomy, an academic advisor to a group of MBS students, and an Associate Director of the program.