Distinguished Professor Kenneth M. Heilman Department of Neurology College of Medicine
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The University of Florida Distinguished Professors Lecture Series Presents: Distinguished Professor Kenneth M. Heilman Department of Neurology College of Medicine "IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID, BUT HOW YOU SAID IT: Emotional communication and the brain." Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:00 pm-8:00 pm Hough Hall Graduate School of Business Room 120A/B All university and community members are welcome Refreshments will be served Please RSVP by Monday, Nov. 15th to: [email protected] Born and raised in Brooklyn, Kenneth M. Heilman received his M.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1963 and subsequently spent two years training in Internal Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center (Bellevue). During the Vietnam War he joined the Air Force and was Chief of Medicine at NATO Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. When he was discharged from the service, he took a Neurology residency and fellowship at the Harvard Neurological Unit (Boston City) with Drs. Derek Denny-Brown and Norman Geschwind. In 1970, after completing his residency and fellowship, he jointed the faculty at the University of Florida and is currently the James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Health Psychology. Heilman has a long career as a clinician, educator and investigator. He continues to practice neurology and he is author, co-author and co-editor of about 500 journal publications, and13 books. In addition to describing several new diseases (e.g., orthostatic tremor) his research has been devoted to understanding disorders of skilled movements, attention and awareness, propositional and emotional communicationtion and creativity. He has received many honors, but he feels his greatest honor has been being married to Patricia, having three wonderful children and grandchildren, as well as being privileged to train more than 75 fellows, most of whom hold academic positions, with several being leaders in academic neurology, neuropsychology and speech pathology. .