Daniel Lowenstein

Dan Lowenstein is Distinguished Professor of Neurology Education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He received his BA in Mathematics from the University of Colorado and MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed neurology residency training at UCSF. Dr. Lowenstein is a clinician-scientist who cares for patients and studies both basic science and clinical aspects of epilepsy. He has been actively involved in advancing the cause of epilepsy at the national and international level, and has held leadership posts in numerous organizations, including the American Epilepsy Society, the International League Against Epilepsy, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Dr. Lowenstein has also devoted his career to the teaching of medicine, and he is a passionate champion of efforts to advance social justice. He served as the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost of UCSF from 2015-2023, and since then returned to his research, clinical and teaching roles in the UCSF Department of Neurology. In recognition of his academic accomplishments and leadership in medicine, he has received many local, national and international awards, including election into the National Academy of Medicine.

In the other aspects of life, Dr. Lowenstein is a husband, father and avid wilderness traveler who has hiked, climbed and canoed extensively throughout the world, including mountaineering and canoe expeditions in Asia, Central and South America, Canada and the United States.

Matthew State

Dr. Matthew State is the ARIA Chief Scientific Advisor and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. He is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, physician-scientist, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. Throughout his research career, his laboratory has made major contributions to the understanding of the causes of autism, Tourette disorder, and brain malformation syndromes. Dr. State obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University, completed his residency and fellowship at UCLA, and earned his PhD in genetics at Yale University. He was the Donald J Cohen Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, and Genetics at Yale before moving to UCSF, where he is the Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a recipient of the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize for Mental Health from that organization for his work on autism.