Ben Thrower M.D. is a neurologist and has served as the Medical Director of the Andrew C. Carlos MS Institute at Shepherd since 2001. Prior to that, he served as Medical Director of the Holy Family MS Center in Spokane, Washington. Dr. Thrower is the Senior Medical Advisor to the MS Foundation and has served on the boards of the Consortium of MS Centers and the Georgia Chapter of the National MS Society. He is the recipient of the Norm Cohn Hope Chest Award from the National MS Society and was the first physician inductee into the Georgia Chapter Volunteer Hall of Fame. He co-authored Navigating Life with MS and is the principal investigator on many clinical MS studies.
He and his pediatrician wife, Karen, have an interest in medical care in resource poor countries and met on a medical trip to Haiti in 1984. They serve on the board of Comunidad Connect and focus their medical trips on the village of Los Robles in the mountains of Nicaragua. Dr. Ben Thrower is the Chair of the Program Advisory Council for Nicaragua Community Health Connection (NCHC). In their non-medical life, Ben and Karen are avid paddle boarders, Harley lovers and part-time pirates.
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