Dale Purves
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Dale Purves | |
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| Born | March 11, 1938 |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.A.) Harvard Medical School (M.D.) |
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| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis Duke University |
| Website | www |
Dale Purves (born March 11, 1938) is an American neuroscientist. He is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, where he remains research professor with additional appointments in the department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, and the department of Philosophy at Duke University.
He was appointed to the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973. He came to Duke in 1990 as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Duke Medical Center, and was subsequently Director of Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (2003-2009) and also served as the director of the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at the Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore (2009-2013).
He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1960 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1964. After further clinical training as a surgical resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, service as a Peace Corps physician, and postdoctoral training at Harvard and University College London. [citation needed]
