The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Nervous System, Volume 7, Part I - Brain

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Dr. Michael J. Aminoff Distinguished Professor Emeritus in neurology at the University of California San Francisco is an internationally recognized neurologist clinical investigator and author. His published contributions led to the award of a Doctor of Science degree by the University of London in 2000. He is one of the two editors-in-chief of the four-volume Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (2003; 2014) as well as one of the series editors of the multivolume Handbook of Clinical Neurology. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Muscle & Nerve from 1998 to 2007 and has served on numerous other editorial boards. He was a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for eight years and served as board chair in 2011. In 2006 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine and in 2007 the A.B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurological Education from the American Academy of Neurology. In 2019 he received the Robert S. Schwab Award for outstanding contributions to research in peripheral clinical neurophysiology from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. Scott L. Pomeroy is an internationally known expert on the biological origins treatment and long-term outcomes of childhood brain tumors. He has served as the Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurologist-in-Chief of Boston Children's Hospital since 2005. Dr. Pomeroy graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Miami University in 1975 and in 1982 was the first graduate of the M.D. Ph.D. program of the University of Cincinnati. He trained in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and in child neurology at St. Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University of St. Louis. In 1989 he won the Child Neurology Society Young Investigator Award for work done as a postdoctoral fellow of Dale Purves. The Pomeroy lab focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular basis of medulloblastomas and other embryonal brain tumors. Dr. Pomeroy has served as an ad hoc and chartered member of many NIH study sections as co-Editor of Neurology in Clinical Practice and Associate Editor of Annals of Neurology as President of the Child Neurology Foundation and as a member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. He has received numerous awards including the Sidney Carter Award of the American Academy of Neurology the Daniel Drake Medal of the University of Cincinnati the inaugural Compassionate Caregiver Award of the Kenneth Schwartz Center and the Bernard Sachs Award of the Child Neurology Society. In 2017 he was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Levin began his position at Cleveland Clinic in 1984 as a neurologist and currently serves in multiple capacities including Chair of the Department of Neurology Director of the Neuromuscular Center at the Neurological Institute Program Director for neurophysiology and neuromuscular fellowships and Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Case Western Reserve University. Twice awarded Teacher of the Year by the Neurology Department Dr. Levin's specialties are electromyography and clinical neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Levin is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and his been elected to membership in the American Neurological Association. He has held leadership positions in these and other professional associations and sits on the editorial board of Muscle and Nerve. The author of several books and many articles Dr. Levin is also engaged in clinical research with interests ranging from the electrodiagnosis of radiculopathy and defects of neuromuscular junction transmission to the treatment of polyneuropathy.