He has an active laboratory and clinical interests in stroke, neurorehabilitation, and mechanisms of brain repair after injury. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine and completed a Neurology residency there as well. Dr. Carmichael was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at UCLA from 1998-2001, studying mechanisms of axonal sprouting with a clinical emphasis on neurorehabilitation and stroke. Dr. Carmichael is a charter member of NIH Study Section BINP, on the editorial boards of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and the Journal of Neurodegeneration and Regeneration and is director of didactics in the training program for UCLA neurology residents. His clinical work includes serving as an attending physician on the UCLA inpatient neurologic rehabilitation unit and on the acute stroke service.