Rainald Schmidt-Kastner

Rainald Schmidt-Kastner, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University. His expertise spans brain ischemia-hypoxia, selective neuronal vulnerability, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

• Education: MD (summa cum laude, University of Düsseldorf, 1984); Habilitation in Physiology (Ruhr-University Bochum, 1992).
• Research Themes: Focus on ischemia-hypoxia response, hippocampal vulnerability, retinal ischemia, and gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia/ADHD.

Recent publications highlight genomic approaches to selective vulnerability, cross-disease analyses (e.g., Hartnup disease, Alzheimer’s), and neurodevelopmental models. Awards include the Heisenberg Fellowship, Dwight W. Warren Teaching Award, and Outstanding Course Director recognition. He teaches medical neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and integrated morphology.