Rate My Professor Arthur Toga

Arthur W. Toga is Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is Director of the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute and the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI). Toga received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974, a Master of Science in Psychology/Neurosciences from Saint Louis University in 1976, and a PhD in Psychology/Neurosciences from Saint Louis University in 1978. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine and held faculty positions there before moving to UCLA in 1987, where he advanced to full professor in 1993 and University Professor in 2009. In 2013, Toga joined USC as director of LONI and the Stevens Institute.

Toga’s research centers on neuroimaging, informatics, and brain mapping, including the development of imaging techniques and large-scale three-dimensional brain atlases to study Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological disorders. He has participated in major projects such as the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the Human Connectome Project, and the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative. Toga is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal NeuroImage. He has authored or co-authored more than 950 peer-reviewed papers and numerous books and book chapters, including titles in the Brain Mapping series. Among his honors are the Pioneer in Medicine Award, the Smithsonian Award for Scientific Innovation, and the Giovanni DiChiro Award for Outstanding Scientific Research. He holds the Ghada Irani Chair in Neuroscience and has been recognized repeatedly as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate.