Dr. Forgács is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation led by Dr. Nicholas Shiff, part of Feil Family Brain and Mind Institute, and an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Investigation in the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior, directed by Dr. Donald Pfaff at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Forgács received his MD from the University of Szeged, Hungary (Summa cum Laude). He completed his Medicine Internship and Neurology Residency at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center and his Clinical Neurophysiology/Epilepsy Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Following his clinical training, Dr. Forgacs completed a 3-year research fellowship at The Rockefeller University, where he also earned a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational Medicine before joining Cornell faculty. As an academic physician-scientist specialized in neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Dr. Forgács’s research goal is to advance our understanding of neurological recovery after severe brain injuries focusing on identifying the role of unique circuit-level mechanisms crucial to recovery of consciousness. His current research projects involve patients with alterations of level of arousal from a wide range of etiologies in intensive care units (ICUs) with special initial emphasis on patients who had cardiac arrest and underwent therapeutic hypothermia. This research addresses an important and unmet clinical need in this patient population and will provide a basis to develop methods of early selection of patients with better chances for recovery and stratification of new or additional therapies aimed to enhance recovery (pharmacological, instrumental or changes in management).
