Background
Busis, Neil Amdur was born on March 4, 1951 in Pittsburgh. Son of Sidney Nahum and Sylvia Esther Busis.
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Neil Amdur Busis
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Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, 1973; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1977.
Career
Intern, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1977-1978;
assistant resident, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1978-1979;
resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1981-1983;
chief teaching resident in neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1983-1984;
clinical assistant professor neurology, U. Pittsburgh, since 1985. Research associate laboratory of biochemistry genetics National Heart Lung and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1979-1981. Fellow in internal medicine The Johns Hopkins University, 1977-1979.
Clinical fellow in neurology Harvard Medical School, 1981-1985. Fellow in electromyography Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1984-1985. Hospital committee assignments include Braddock Medical Center, 1989-1993, Shadyside Hospital, since 1991.
Attending physician Presbyterian-University Hospital, since 1985, Montefiore Hospital, since 1985, Shadyside Hospital, since 1985, Forbes Health Sys., since 1989;chief division neurology Shadyside Hospital, since 1994.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Heart Association (stroke county), American Academy Neurology. Member American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Neurosci., American Academy Neurology, Allegheny County Med.Soc. (medical-legal committee 1991-1994, bioethics advising committee 1991-1993), Pennsylvania Medical Society, American Academy of Clinical Neurophysiology, American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (board directors since 1995), The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association (medical director western Pennsylvania chapter 1987-1992), American Society of Neuroimaging.
Interests
Connections
Married Cynthia Rose Dickter, May 24, 1981 (divorced June 1993). Children: David Samuel, Anne Elizabeth, Hillary Brooke. Married Rachel Leah Snyder, February 20, 1994 (divorced 1997).
