WILLIS N. DICKENS, M.D.

wdickens@smgumc.com

Board certified neurologist with a special interest in Parkinson’s disease, spinal disorders, EMG and EEG testing, and DRS traction for back pain.

PROFESSIONAL and TEACHING ACTIVITIES

[1962-present] Private Practice in Neurology, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  First Neurologist in Broward County.

[1962-1965] Associate professor of Neurology, University of Miami Medical School, 1962-1965.

MEDICAL DEGREE

[1953] University of Illinois School of Medicine

CERTIFICATIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

[1952] Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy

[1952-1953] Pre-med Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

[1969] American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

[1967] American Association of Electromyography and Electrodiagnosis

GRADUATE TRAINING

Internship

[1957-1958] (University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals)

Residency: Neurology

[1958-1962] Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, Fellow in Neurology

AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS

·         Academy of Neurology

·         Florida Society of Neurology.

·         American Medical Association

·         Florida Medical Association

·         Broward County Medical Association

·         Southern EEG Society

RESEARCH, PRESENTATIONS, PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PAPERS

[Dec 1962] Tumor Embolism of the Basilar Artery, Case Report, AMA Archives of Neurology, Dickens, Willis N.; Sayre, G.P.; Clagett O.T.; Goldstein, N.P.

[Feb 1963] Cholinesterase Reactivity of Meissner Corpuscles in Patients with Impaired Sensation, Neurology, Dickens, Willis N.; Winkelmann, R.K.; and Mulder, Donald W.

[Jan 1996] Giant Drusen (Astrocytic Hamartoma) of the Optic Nerve seen with Computerized Axial Tomography, American Journal of Ophthalmology, Mark J.; Smith, J. Lawton; Dickens, Willis N.

[May 1975] The EMI Scan, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, Schnell, Roger G., Dickens, Willis N.; and Perry, James B.

[1997] Computerized Tomography of Lesions About the Sella – Suprasellar Area, in Smith, J.L. (Ed.), Dickens, W. Neuro-opthalmology Update

[Apr 1969] Clinical Research in the use of L-Dopa.  Holder of the sixth IND number in the Unites States allowing me the use of L-Dopa.  Discovered the use of Vitamin B-6 as antagonistic to L-Dopa and this information was presented at the American Academy of Neurology in Washington DC

[1973] Established first CT scanner (EMI scanner) State of Florida

[Jun 1972] Representative for exhibits of the Section of Neurology of the American Medical Association and responsible for the Neurologic Exhibits at the American Medical Association Meeting, San Francisco, California

 [1975-1977] Organized the International Symposium on Computerized Cranial Tomography held in Ft. Lauderdale

[1977] Extra-cerebral Hematomas Exhibit, Certificate of Meris, American Medical Association Meeting, Dallas, Texas

[1977] Computerized Tomography Findings in Thrombotic Stroke, Certificate of Merit, AMA, San Francisco, California

[1984] Established the first supra-conducting NMR scanner in South Florida (Broward NMR).

[1989] Arranged for ten (10) Nobel Laureate Speakers (medicine) at Broward General Medical Center

[1978] Founded the Doctors Mayo Society of the Mayo Alumni Association

Nova Southeastern University, Health Professions Division, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology.

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