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Dr. James J. Sejvar is a neurologist and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He completed his undergraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University, and received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 1996, internal medicine training at Pittsburgh's Mercy Medical Center, and completed a residency in neurology at the Mayo Clinic. In 2000, he joined CDC, first as a fellow in infectious disease epidemiology in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, then as a staff epidemiologist in the division of viral and rickettsial diseases and division of vector-borne infectious diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vectorborne, and Enteric Diseases.

Dr. Sejvar's research interests focus on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and outcome of infections of the central nervous system. In addition, he has focused on the clinical syndromes and outcomes associated with West Nile virus and other arthropod-borne viral infections, viral infections of the nervous system, and the neurologic manifestations of other emerging pathogens such as Nipah virus, anthrax, and monkeypox. He collaborates with CDC's National Immunization Program to assess neurologic effects of immunizations, and has conducted several surveys of the adverse events associated with smallpox vaccination.

Dr. Sejvar is board-certified in neurology and is as an assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.