How did you come to be connected with pseudotumor cerebri?
“I was born and raised in Oak Park and River Forest, suburbs of Chicago. My father, grandfather and uncle were physicians who ran an industrial medicine clinic. I went to college at Brown University after which I attended Chicago Medical School. A month-long rotation in neurosurgery at Cook County Hospital with Dr. Anthony Raimondi really consolidated my interest in neurology. “After two years of general internal medicine at the Rhode Island Hospital, I took a residency in Neurology at Cleveland University Hospital at Case-Western Reserve. It was at this time during a three-month rotation with Dr. William Hoyt at the University of California-San Francisco that my interest in ophthalmology and neuro-ophthalmology took hold. My first experience with PTC patients and many later patients perplexed me- what I was reading in the books and journals did not conform to my own experience. I attributed this to the vagaries of individual cases and my relative inexperience. “I spent two years in th
