Bruce H. Dobkin is an American Professor of

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at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, medical director of the UCLA Neurologic Rehabilitation and Research Program, and Co-Director of the UCLA Stroke Center. He serves as editor-in-chief of ''

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''.

Education and career

Dobkin studied at Hamilton College and

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before completing his residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. specialising in neurology. He currently serves on the

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at the

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and is a

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of the American Neurological Association. He is also

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of the Neural Repair and Rehabilitation section at the American Academy of Neurology and is a managing director of the World Federation of NeuroRehabilitation. He has also been elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and has given over 100 lectures worldwide. Dobkin has written several books on neurology and the work of doctors within that field. In 1986 he wrote ''Brain Matters: Stories of a Neurologist and His Patients'' which was published by Crown Publishing Group, and in 2003 ''The Clinical Science of Neurologic Rehabilitation'' through

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. He has also contributed chapters to books by others, including ''Neurology in Clinical Practice'' and ''Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management''. His journal articles have been published in the '' New England Journal of Medicine'', ''

'', the '' Journal of Neurophysiology'', the '' Journal of Neurosurgery'' and many others.

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