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Oliver Sacks Visit - Oct. 2, 2008
"Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England into a family of physicians and scientists (his mother was a surgeon and his father a general practitioner). He earned his medical degree at Oxford University (Queen's College), and did residencies and fellowship work at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA. Since 1965, he has lived in New York, where he is a practicing neurologist. In July of 2007, he was appointed Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, and he was also designated the university's first Columbia University Artist."*
Dr. Sacks worked with a group of patients in 1966 that inspired his book Awakenings, which the movie of the same title and A Kind of Alaska (a play by Harold Pinter) were based on. Dr. Sacks is also the author of collections of case studies including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (which was later turned into a play), An Anthropologist on Mars, and Migraine.
After eating lunch with the faculty, Dr. Sacks met with a group of about twenty students for a discussion. The students asked questions relating to Dr. Sacks's current research as well as his most recent publication Musicophilia and his earlier works.
*From Oliver Sacks.