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Oliver Sacks, M.D.

Oliver Sacks is a Physician and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, as well as the university's first Columbia University Artist. The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as "the poet laureate of medicine," and his books and essays are used in schools and universities around the world.

In his many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks describes patients struggling to live with conditions ranging from Tourette's syndrome to autism, parkinsonism, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease. His book Awakenings inspired a play by Harold Pinter and also the Oscar-nominated feature film with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. His essays regularly appear in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, as well as various medical journals. Sacks holds honorary degrees from many universities, including Oxford, the Karolinska Institute, Georgetown, Bard, Gallaudet, Tufts, and the Catholic University of Péru. He is an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His most recent book is Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.

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