Biography

Sid Gilman MD FRCP retired from the University of Michigan Medical Center in November 2012 where he was the William Herdman Distinguished University Professor of Neurology. Currently he is a volunteer neurologist at Hope Clinic, Ypsilanti MI. He has published 242 papers in peer reviewed journals on molecular imaging studies in the investigation of dementia, ataxia, Parkinson's disease, and related topics. He discovered the cognitive disorders associated with open heart operations as documented in a seminal article in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1965; the mechanism of cerebellar hypotonia as shown in an article in Brain in 1969; the localization of speech disorders in the cerebellum as published in Annals of Neurology in 1978; and in a series of articles published from 1987 until 2012 he demonstrated studies of changes in cerebral metabolic activity and neurotransmitter receptor binding associated with neurodegenerative diseases, including the ataxias, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple system atrophy. Dr. Gilman received numerous honors and awards, including election to the Institute of Medicine (later termed the National Academy of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences; appointment as a Fellow of the Royal College of Medicine, London, England; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; President of the American Neurological Association. Currently Dr. Gilman serves patients who are unable to afford medical care and continues to complete scientific projects initiated while he was a member of the University.

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Research Interest

Cerebral metabolic activity and neurotransmitter receptor binding associated with neurodegenerative diseases, including the ataxias, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple system atrophy