Norman J. Kachuck, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at the USC Keck School of Medicine, and Director of the USC MS Comprehensive Care Center.ﾠ He earned his bachelorﾒs degree in musical performance and composition from the University of California, San Diego, and worked as a musician as well as doing graduate work at the Juilliard School before returning to UCLA for post baccalaureate pre-medical studies.ﾠ He attended medical school at USC, and subsequently completed the Neurology residency there, joining the USC faculty in 1991.

Since doing work with John Fleming, MD on corona-virus infections and EAE, Dr. Kachuck has been a clinician and investigator in MS immunology and therapeutics.ﾠ As Chief of the Neuroimmunology Division of the Department of Neurology, he has an active clinical practice, and teaches medical student, allied health profession students, and doctors in training.ﾠ He oversees the MS groupﾒs clinical research activity as well as spearheading the disease management aspects of the Center mission.ﾠ He is on the board of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the National MS Society, and lectures widely on MS research and treatment advances.ﾠ He also serves as Vice Chief of the USC Health Sciences Institutional Review Board.ﾠ He has three sons, and lives in the San Fernando Valley.