Findings
Houston, Texas
Volume 6, Issue 4
April 2008

Briefs

Mizrahi named neurology chair

Eli M. Mizrahi, M.D., has been named chair of the Department of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Mizrahi has served as vice chair of the department, head of the Peter Kellaway Section of Neurophysiology and director of the Baylor Comprehensive Epilepsy Center.

After graduating from the University of Miami with a medical degree, Mizrahi completed residency training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Stanford University Medical Center in California.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in clinical neurophysiology at BCM before joining the faculty full time in 1982.

Named to serve as vice chairs of the department were Jeffrey L. Noebels, Ph.D., for research and Paul E. Schulz, M.D., for education. Noebels is professor of neurology, neuroscience and molecular and human genetics and director of the Blue Bird Circle Developmental Neurogenetics Laboratory. Schulz is associate professor of neurology and neuroscience and director of the Neurology Residency Program.

Endowed chair honors Brinkley

BRASS, a special group of research advocates at Baylor College of Medicine, has established The William R. Brinkley/BRASS Endowed Chair to honor long-time faculty member, Bill Brinkley, Ph.D., senior vice president and dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

BRASS, or Baylor Research Advocates for Students Science, is a committed group of prominent Houston citizens who support scholarships and other benefits for the BCM graduate school's top applicants for both its doctoral and M.D./Ph.D. programs.

Brinkley, the first to hold the chair, has served as the graduate school's dean for 17 years and has sparked its rise to becoming one of the nation's leading centers of graduate education.

Tolias receives Young Investigator Award

Andreas Tolias, Ph.D., an assistant professor of neuroscience, has been honored with an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award. The $300,000 award will support his research in optical imaging. Tolias is joined BCM in 2007 after completing postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tbingen, Germany.