Kenneth Heilman

Kenneth Heilman
Born	1938 (age 78–79) Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	United States
Fields	Behavioral neurologist
Institutions	University of Florida
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Virginia

Kenneth M. Heilman (born 1938) is an American behavioral neurologist.

Heilman was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.

He attended the University of Virginia and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1963.

He did two years of residency in internal medicine at Cornell University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital. During the Vietnam War era, he joined the Air Force and served as chief of medicine at the NATO Hospital in Izmir, Turkey from 1965 to 1967. After leaving the Air Force, Heilman went for residency in neurology at Harvard Medical School under Derek Denny-Brown and then continued there in a fellowship with Norman Geschwind.

Upon completion of his fellowship, Heilman was recruited by the chairman of the department of neurology, Melvin Greer, and joined the faculty of the University of Florida Department of Neurology in 1970 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1973 and Professor in 1975. He became the first James E. Rooks, Jr. Professor of Neurology in 1990, a newly endowed chair at the university. In 1998, Heilman he was among the first UF faculty to receive the title of Distinguished Professor. Heilman is also the program director and was chief of neurology at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Administration Hospital (Malcom Randall VAMC). He is also a professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the UF

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