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This site provides an introduction to Oliver Sacks’s work and life, offers summaries of some of Dr. Sacks’s clinical tales, and makes it easy for Columbians to access Dr. Sacks’s essays, books, videos, audio, news, and criticism.
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Appointments: Scientist & Artist |
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President Lee C. Bollinger created the position of Columbia Artist in 2007 to make Oliver Sacks available to all of Columbia University. Dr. Sacks’s position is unconstrained by any particular department, school, program, or campus group. The Arts Initiative, under the President’s Office, is honored to help all members of the Columbia community reach out to Dr. Sacks. [More on this position . . . ] |
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Oliver Sacks, M.D. is professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, and Professor of the Arts in the Writing Program of the School of the Arts. His main clinical interests are movement and sensory disorders, disorders of consciousness, memory and awareness, and neurological adaptation. [ More on this position . . .]
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| To learn more about how your department or campus group can work with Dr. Sacks, contact Eleanor Milburn at the Arts Initiative - 212.851.1872 or ejm2026@columbia.edu. |
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| This is primarily a Columbia University and NYC-focused list. Please visit www.oliversacks.com for a complete guide to upcoming events. |
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Jun 3, 2009
Narrative Medicine Rounds - "Hallucinations"
Hammer Health Sciences Center/Long Library Room 401
701 W. 168th Street
(Corner of 168th & Fort Washington Ave.)
NY, NY
open to the public, 5:00pm
June 1, 2009
Keynote, Annual Joint Meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine
New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
open to the public, 5.30pm
May 15, 2009
Pediatric Neurology Dept Grand Rounds - "Savants"
McIntosh Room Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, 12:00 CUMC only noon
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