Neurosurgery Research-Children's Hospital, Faculty, Larry I. Benowitz, Ph.D.

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Larry I. Benowitz, Ph.D.

Director, Laboratory for Neuroscience Research in Neurosurgery

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (Neuroscience)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617.355.6368
Fax: 617.730.0636
E-mail: benowitz@a1.tch.harvard.edu

Date of Birth: 22 September, 1945
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York

Education:
	1966	B.Eng.	The Cooper Union, New York, NY
	1973	Ph.D.	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (Biology/ Psychobiology; R.W. Sperry, thesis advisor)
Postdoctoral Training:
	1973		Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology
	1974-1975		Postdoctoral research fellow, Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
	1975-1977		Research fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Academic Appointments:
	1977-1979		Research Associate in Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School
	1979-1987		Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Psychobiology), Harvard Medical School
	1984-		Associate, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
	1987-1990		Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Neuroscience), Harvard Med. School
	1990-		Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (Neuroscience), Harvard Medical School
Hospital or Affiliated Institution Appointments:
	1975-1977		Research Fellow in Biochemistry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA
	1977-1979		Assistant Biochemist, McLean Hospital
	1979-		Associate Biochemist, McLean Hospital
	1984-1990		Chief, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology and Neuropsychology, Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital
	1990-		Director, Laboratory for Neuroscience Research in Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital (Boston)
	1990-		Faculty Council, Awards Committee, Children's Hospital
Other Appointments:
	1980		Visiting Scientist, The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
	1984-1987		Neuropsychology consultant for Positron Emission Tomography program, MGH
	1985-1987		Consultant on research project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on space adaptation sickness.
	1987-1989		Neurological Sciences Study Section, National Institutes of Health (ad hoc)
	1997-1998		Visual Sciences B Study Section, NIH
	1996-		Review panel, Whitehall Foundation
Assignments:
	1979-1990		Chairman, Seminar Committee, McLean Hospital
	1985-1988		Chairman, Boston Area Neuroscience Group (B.A.N.G.)
	1986		Co-Chairman, NRP Conference on "A key phosphoprotein in neuronal development and plasticity," Neuroscience Institute, Rockefeller University (with B. Grafstein, A. Routtenberg), 4/86
	1987-1990		Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, McLean Hospital
	1988-		Admissions Committee, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
	1988-		Advisory Committee, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
	1989-1990		Teaching and Education Committee, McLean Hospital
	1990-		Faculty Council, Awards Committee, Children's Hospital
	1995-		Chair, Human Resources Subcommittee, Children's Hospital
	1995-		Faculty Advisor, William Castle Society, Harvard Medical School
	1998-		Co-chair, Standing Committee on Awards and Honors, Harvard Medical School

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