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Psychiatry Neurology Neurologist, Board Certified Psychiatry Neurologist, adolescents adults, Neuroscientist Diagnosis Treatment of Pain, Occupational & Cognitive, Workers Comp IME, Anesthesiology, Nerve Trauma, Head Trauma, Neurotoxicity, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, indications for surgery, neurophysiology, Senior Pain Specialist Management,
Education
Private primary and secondary education, New York City. B.A. summa cum laude (Chemistry, Physics), Yeshiva University, 1952. S.M. (Biology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953. M.D. cum laude, Yale University School of Medicine, 1957. Ph.D. (Neurophysiology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963.
Academic Honors, Awards, Fellowships
Alumni Scholarship, Yeshiva University, 1949-1952
Undergraduate awards Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Yeshiva University, 1952
New York State Regents Medical Scholarship, 1953
Predoctoral Fellow, National Science Foundation, 1952
Scholarship (Medicine), Yale University, 1956-1957
James Hudson Brown Research Fellowship, School of Medicine Yale University, 1956-1957. Elected Member, Alpha Omega Alpha, 1957
Elected Member, Sigma Xi, 1957.
Postdoctoral Fellow, NINDS, 1964-1966.
Special Fellow, NINDS, 1964-1966.
Research Career Development Award, NINDS, 1966-1973.
Traveling Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, 1972.
Fellow, Center for Systems Neuroscience, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1975.
Societies, General
Alpha Omega Alpha
Sigma Xi
New York Academy of Science
AAAS
American Medical Association
New Haven County Medical Association
Connecticut Medical Society
American Cancer Society, Southern Connecticut Chapter (Board of Directors, 1987-1989)
Societies, Special
American Academy of Neurology
Connecticut Neurological Society
Society for Neuroscience (Founding Member)
International Association for the Study of Pain
(Founding Member, Scientific Program Committee, First World Congress, Florence, Italy, 1975)
American Pain Society (Founding Member; sometime Finance Committee Member)
Eastern Pain Association (Founding Member)
New England Pain Association
(Founding Member; Board of Directors; sometime Nominee for President- Elect)
American Academy of Pain Medicine (Founding Member)
American Association for the Study of Headache
Society for Regional Anesthesia
American Society for Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery
World Society for Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery
National Association of Disability Examining Physicians (Founding Member)
Postgraduate Medical Training & Appointments
Interne, Medicine, Yale University (Grace-New Haven Hospital) 1957
Resident, Neuromedical Service, Mass. Gen. Hospital, 1963 (partial)
Resident to Chief Resident, Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, Yale New Haven Hospital, 1968-1971 Associate in Neurology, Yale New Haven Medical Center, 1971-1975
Attending, Neurology, 1975-2006, as of 7/1/06 honorary status
Consultant: Hospital of St. Raphael (New Haven, CT) 1975-2006, as of 7/1/06, emeritus status.
Griffin Hospital (Derby, CT) 1975-1979
Milford Hospital (Milford, CT) 1975-
Meriden-Wallingford Hospital (Wallingford, CT) 1976-1990
Medical Certification & Licensure
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1958
National Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology) 1975
Massachusetts 1960
Connecticut 1971
New York 1973
Medical Practice
Private Practice, Consultant, Neurology
Neurophysiology
Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic, Intractable, Pain
Cognitive Neurology
Occupational Neurology
Medicolegal Assessment (New Haven, CT), 1976-2006
Academic Appointments
Special Research Fellow, Experimental Neurology, Department of Psychology, M.I.T., 1964-1966
Research Associate, Experimental Neurology, Department of Psychology, M.I.T., 1966-1968
Visiting Assistant Professor, Neurophysiology (Neurosurgery)
Yale University School of Medicine, 1967-1968
Assistant Professor, Neurophysiology (Neurosurgery)
Yale University School of Medicine, 1968-1972
Associate Professor, Neurophysiology (Neurosurgery)
Yale University School of Medicine, 1972-1975
Associate Professor, Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1972-1975
Lecturer, Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine 1975-2000
Professor, Clinical Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1975-1976
Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 1976-2000
Special Academic Functions: Director, Neurosurgical (Neurophysiological) Research Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 1968-1975
Director, Research Laboratory for Acute Spinal Cord Injury, Department of Neurosurgery
Yale University School of Medicine, 1973-1975
Director, Inpatient and Outpatient Pain Consultation Service (“Pain Clinic”)
Yale New Haven Hospital, (Departments of Neurosurgery and Anesthesiology), 1972-1975
Special Consultative Experience
Available upon request
Special Research Experience & Interests
Available upon Request
Special Travel For Research
United Kingdom, Netherlands, France
(Traveling Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine)
People’s Republic of China (Delegate, Acupuncture Anesthesia Study Group, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences)
Israel (Special Consultant to Hebrew University, Center for the Study and Treatment of Pain)
Israel (Consultant to Israeli Department of Defense, military casualties and pain)
Current Research
Institute for Pain Research (Private Foundation), 1975
Scientific Languages
French
German
Hebrew
Computer Programming Languages
Basic
FORTRAN
Pascal
Prolog
C
Lisp
Xbase
Mathematica
Publications
Available upon request
USAF And NASA Reports
Available upon request
Formal Publications
Available upon request
Papers Presented
Available upon request
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