Millennium Magazine_7th Ed

180 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS 1969, professor in 1972, Eugene McDermott Professor in 1980 and Institute Professor in 2002. He attained emeritus status in 2017. While serving MIT, Dr. Bizzi was chairman of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences from 1986 to 1997 and also served as an investigator of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, where he is now an emeritus investigator. Contributing articles to professional journals and several book chapters, has sat on the editorial board of the Journal of Motor Behavior since 1981. Previously, Dr. Bizzi was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Neurobiology and the Brain Theory Newsletter. A former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Bizzi has maintained affiliation with the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and the International Brain Research Organization. Notably, he received the Aiden Spencer Award fromColumbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1978 and the Hermann von Helmholtz Award in 1992. W hile studying medicine, Dr. Emilio Bizzi became interested in and found his niche for neurological diseases. He received an MD from the University of Rome in his native Italy, graduating summa cum laude with highest honors in 1958. He then became a postdoctoral trainee at the Institute of Medical Pathology at the University of Siena for two years and at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Pisa for an additional three years. Upon his arrival to the United States in 1963, Dr. Bizzi assumed his first role as a research associate in the Neurophysiological Laboratory at the Department of Zoology of Washington University in St. Louis. He then served for two years as a visiting associate in the section of physiology at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Bizzi joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1966, where he first served as a research associate in the Department of Psychology, then as a lecturer for one year. Escalating through the ranks, he was promoted to associate professor of neurophysiology in EMILIO BIZZI, MD NEUROSCIENTIST, EDUCATOR McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Belmont, MA