Paul Bach-y-Rita

Background

Bach-y-Rita, Paul was born on April 24, 1934 in New York City. Son of Pedro and Anne (Hyman) Bach-y-R.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1959.

Career

Public health officer, Tilzapotla, Mexico, 1958-1959; intern, Presbyterian Hospital, San Francisco, 1960-1961; resident in physical medicine and rehabilitation, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Stanford University, San Jose, California, 1977-1979; professor, School Medical Science, U. Pacific, San Francisco, 1967-1979; chief rehabilitation medicine service, Martinez (California) Veterans Administration Hospital., 1979-1983; professor, vice department chairman physical medicine and rehabilitation, professor department human physiology, University of California, Davis, 1979-1983; professor, University of Wisconsin School Medicine-Madison, since 1983; department chairman, University of Wisconsin School Medicine-Madison, 1983-1988. Associate director Smith-Kettlewell Institute Visual Sciences, San Francisco, 1967-1979, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, since 1994. Director San Francisco Rehabilitation Engineering Center, 1974-1978.

Visiting professor U. Pisa, Italy, 1970-1971, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1974, 86, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, 1975-1976, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1989-1990, Poste Rouge, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris,1994-1995.

Achievements

• Paul Bach-y-Rita has been listed as a noteworthy neurophysiologist, specialist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Rehabilitation Medicine Association, American Physiological Society, Society Neurosci.

Connections

Married Esther Wicab Gutierrez, April 2, 1977. Children: Jacqueline Anne, Carol Jean, Laura, Andrea.

Father:

Pedro Bach-y-R.

Mother:

Anne (Hyman) Bach-y-R.

Spouse:

Esther Wicab Gutierrez

child:

Jacqueline Anne Bach-y-Rita

child:

Laura Bach-y-Rita

child:

Andrea Bach-y-Rita

child:

Carol Jean Bach-y-Rita