Melvin Greer, M.D.
Professor of Neurology

Phone: (352) 273-5550
Fax: (352) 273-5575
greerm@neurology.ufl.edu

Department of Neurology
L3-100 McKnight Brain Institute
Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL. 32610

Former Chair, Department of Neurology

Professional Background: M.D., New York University College of Medicine (1954)

Personal Info
Dr. Greer serves as the Bob Paul Family Professor of Neurology, an endowed professorship and as Professor of Neurology, Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Florida, as well as past Chairman of the Department of Neurology, University of Florida. He currently serves as Faculty for Special Courses for the American Academy of Neurology, is an Assistant Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is on the Editorial and Publication Committee of the American Academy of Neurology. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with special competence in child Neurology.

Dr. Greer graduated Magna Cum Laude (with honors) with a BA from the College of Arts and Pure Science, New York University, in 1950 and received his MD in 1954 from New York University. He served his internship and residency from 1954 to 1956 at Bellevue Hospital in NY and was a Fellow in Neurology at the New York Neurological Institute of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Dr. Greer is a Special Consultant to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and to the AMA Residency Review Committee, a Consultant with the Florida Division of Corrections, AMA committee on Veterans Administration, and the National Vaccine Advisory Commission of the American Academy of Neurology. He is a Fellow with the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, the American Federation of Clinical Research, the American Neurological Association, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, the Child Neurology Society, the Florida Pediatric Society, the Florida Medical Association, the Florida Society of Neurology and Society for Pediatric Research, the Southern Society for Pediatric Research and the Society for Experimental Neuropathy.

Research Interests
Neurochemistry of Neurological Disorders, Pseudotumor cerebri, Child Neurology

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