Robert L. Grubb Jr., M.D., the Herbert Lourie Professor of Neurological Surgery and professor of radiology, has been named the 40th chairman of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He will serve a one-year term.
Established in 1940, the board certifies neurological surgeons by reviewing applicants' educational training and practice qualifications and giving written and oral exams. It also strives to improve training opportunities and standards in neurosurgical residency programs throughout the United States. Grubb has served as a board member for six years.
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Grubb also has been elected 49th president of the Southern Neurosurgical Society. He will serve for one year. Henry G. Schwartz, M.D., the August A. Busch Jr. Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and lecturer in that department, helped found the society in 1949 and served as president from 1953 to 1954. Membership now includes 500 neurosurgeons.
Grubb is a neurosurgeon at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals and a consultant in neurological surgery at the John Cochran Veterans Administration Hospital.
He is author or co-author of 116 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. In his research, he uses positron emission tomography to study cerebral blood flow and metabolism in patients with carotid artery occlusion, stroke, head injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage. In 1990, this work earned him the Grass Prize for Research from the Society of Neurological Surgeons.
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