Dr. Diringer has degrees in Psychology, Neuropsychopharmacology and Medicine. He completed a Neurology residency at the SUNY at Stony Brook and fellowship training in Neurosciences Critical Care at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions where he remained as a faculty member until 1992.
In 1992 Dr. Diringer moved to Washington University where he established a neurocritical care program which has trained scores of fellows and visiting scholars.
A focus of his research has been measuring the physiological responses to therapeutic interventions in critically ill neuro patients using PET. Dr. Diringer has held leadership roles in numerous international multi-center trials serving on Steering committees and DSMB for trials in subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke.
Dr. Diringer has chaired numerous international workshops and consensus conferences, served as the second President of the Neurocritical Care Society and in 2018 assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief for the journal Neurocritical Care.