Background
Brooks, Benjamin Rix was born on December 1, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederic Manning and Miriam Adelaide (Rix) Brooks.
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Brooks, Benjamin Rix was born on December 1, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederic Manning and Miriam Adelaide (Rix) Brooks.
AB cum laude, Harvard University, 1965; Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1970.
Intern, assistant resident, Harvard Medical Svc., Boston City Hospital, 1970-1972;
resident in neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1972-1974;
clinical associate medical neurology branch, National Institute Neurolog. Diseases and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland., 1974-1976;
research fellow neurovirology division, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 1976-1978;
assistant professor neurology department, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 1978-1982;
associate professor neurology and medical microbiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 1982-1987;
professor, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, since 1987;
staff neurologist, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital., Madison, 1982-1984;
chief neurology service, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital., Madison, since 1984. Examiner American Board Psychiatry and Neurology, Evanston, Illinois, since 1980.
Chairman neuropharmacologic drugs advising committee Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland., 1982-1985. Visiting professor various schools, United States, England, Federal Republic Germany, Japan, Spain.
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Member ushers committee Grace Episcopal Church, Madison, since 1983. Member talented and gifted evaluation committee Madison School Board, 1986. Member commission on VA manpower of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy Sciences Lieutenant commander United States Public Health Service, 1974-1976.
Member American Academy Neurology (chair government services section since 1995, member animal research committee 1990-1995), American Neurolog. Association, Wisconsin Neurolog. Society (secretary-treasurer 1985-1987, vice president 1988, president-elect 1989, president 1990), Society for Neurosci., North America Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Care Registry (advising committee), Society Experimental Neuropathology, American Society Microbiology, International Society Neuroimmunology, Association VA Neurologists (president 1994-1996, councilor since 1996), Society In Vitro Biology, Tissue Culture Association, World Federation Neurology Research Group on Neuromuscular Diseases-Motor Neuron Diseases (steering committee).
Married Susan Jane Whitmore, May 31, 1970. Children: Nathaniel Phillips, Alexander Whitmore, Joshua Cushing.
