Stéphanie Debette, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology at Lariboisière Hospital and University Paris Diderot, Paris, France, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. She trained as a stroke neurologist at the University Hospital of Lille, France, and completed a master degree in statistical genetics at the University Paris-XI, and a PhD in epidemiology at an Inserm Unit at the Pasteur Institute in Lille, France. Between 2008 and 2010, Dr. Debette has worked as a Fulbright post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology of Boston University School of Medicine where she joined the neurology research team of the Framingham Heart Study.