Meet The Faculty
Glen Cook, MD, FAAN
Dr. Glen Cook is an Associate Dean for Regional Education and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. He is also the Director of Neurology Services and a Staff Neurologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, VA. Dr. Cook previously served as the Neurology Residency Program Director and, prior to that, the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program Director at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Cook received his Doctor of Medicine with Distinction in Service from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed a fellowship in Autonomic Disorders in the Clinical Neurocardiology Section of the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke at the National Institute of Health followed by a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology. Amongst many awards, he is a two-time recipient of the Department of Defense’s Joint Service Commendation Medal and a recipient of the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He is also a member of several professional medical associations including the American Autonomic Society.
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June is a doctoral-prepared nurse practitioner and assistant professor of nursing at University of Tampa. She recently published a peer-reviewed article related to the management of autonomic dysfunction and has presented at the local, state, and national levels on the topic of dysautonomia. As a certified pediatric nurse practitioner, June has over 12 years of experience in primary care management of both acute and chronic diseases in the pediatric population. June also her own a primary care practice, Dr. Joonie’s Examinavan, that services 5+ counties in the Tampa Bay area. June is a Medical Ambassador for The Dysautonomia Project and president of the Gulf Coast chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
David Goldstein, MD, PhD
Dr. David S. Goldstein is a founder and thought leader in autonomic medicine, with substantial experience and expertise in clinical catecholamine neurochemistry, sympathetic neuroimaging, autonomic pathophysiology, mechanisms of catecholaminergic neurodegeneration, and stress and homeostasis as medical scientific ideas. He received his BA from Yale College and M.D.-Ph.D. in Behavioral Sciences from Johns Hopkins. After internal medical residency at the University of Washington he came to the NIH as a Clinical Associate in the NHLBI in 1978, obtaining tenure as a Senior Investigator in 1984. He joined the NINDS in 1990 to head the Clinical Neurochemistry
Section and founded the Clinical Neurocardiology Section (name changed to Autonomic Medicine Section in 2019). He retired from the NIH in August, 2025 and now is a Scientist Emeritus. He has received Yale’s Angier Prize for Research in Psychology, the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Society for Clinical and Translational Science, the NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award, the Schatz Award of the American Academy of Neurology for research on autonomic disorders, 2 NINDS Director’s Awards for mentorship, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Physiological Society, and the Founder’s Award of The Dysautonomia Project.
Dr. Goldstein is the author of almost 700 research articles and several books, including “Adrenaline and the Inner World: An Introduction to Scientific Integrative Medicine,” “Stress, Catecholamines, and Cardiovascular Disease,” “The Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease,” “Principles of Autonomic Medicine,” and his professional autobiography, “An Autonomic Life: Looking Back at a Half Century of Patient-Oriented Research at the NIH.” Dr. Goldstein has also co-authored the recently published second edition of “The Dysautonomia Project.” His main strategic goal is to establish autonomic medicine as a clinical and scientific discipline. To pursue this goal, he recently established The Autonomic and Catecholamine Healthspan Institute, LLC.
Elisabeth Golden, MD
Dr. Elisabeth Golden is a neurologist with additional subspecialization in neuromuscular and autonomic disorders. She completed medical school, residency, and fellowship training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center before joining the faculty there. She moved to East Texas in 2022 and is currently an associate professor at the University of Texas at Tyler practicing hospital neurology. Dr. Golden’s academic interests include multidisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of neuromuscular and autonomic disorders, teaching the broader medical community about autonomic disorders, and resident education.
Kelsey Klaas, MD
Kelsey Klaas, MD is a pediatrician in the division of General Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at Mayo Clinic Children’s in Rochester; Minnesota. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, and completed her pediatric residency at Mayo Clinic, followed by a year as chief resident. Her practice includes care of children with complex health conditions. Dr. Klaas is the medical co-director of the Mayo Clinic Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center. She is the Pediatric Clerkship Director for the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Laura A. Pace, MD, PhD, FACG
Dr. Pace is a physician-scientist specializing in neuroimmunogastroenterology, with expertise in diagnosing and treating complex multisystem disorders involving the neuroimmune axis. She serves as Director of the Neuroimmune Axis Disorders Program at Meliora Bio, where she leads initiatives in precision diagnostics and personalized medicine. As Chief Medical Officer at Meliora Genomics, she leverages whole genome sequencing to further advance the diagnosis of neuroimmune axis disorders.
Dr. Pace is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology through the American Board of Internal Medicine, and Autonomic Disorders through the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Additionally, she has formalized clinical training in Neurogastroenterology and Medical Genetics, and a PhD in Neuroscience. She has been part of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network and is a former NIH Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar. To date she has published
over 150 peer reviewed scientific articles.
Nathaniel Robbins, MD
Dr. Robbins is a neurologist at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Small Fiber and Autonomic Neurology at MGB, which includes the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. At MGB he is responsible for supervising all clinic activities related to autonomic disorders, autonomic testing, and small fiber neuropathy. Following neurology residency at UCSF and a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at Dartmouth, he joined the Faculty at Dartmouth in 2016 where he started and grew the Autonomic Disorders program and clinical Autonomic Laboratory. He has research interests in clinical autonomic disorders and medical and professional ethics. Dr. Robbins is passionate about autonomic education and improving the diagnosis and treatment of autonomic disorders including synuclein-associated chronic autonomic failure conditions, postural tachycardia syndrome, and recurrent syncope.
Howard Snapper, MD, FACC
Dr. Snapper is a cardiologist and the Director of the Autonomic Disorder Division and Autonomic Lab for Wellstar Cardiovascular Medicine in Woodstock, GA. He has over 30 years of experience in cardiology and over 10 specializing in autonomic medicine. Dr. Snapper received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Northwestern University Medical Center in Chicago, and then a Cardiology Fellowship at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He received his UCNS certification in Autonomic Disorders in 2018 and serves as the Chairman of the POTS Section of the American Autonomic Society.
