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Russell
L. Blaylock, M.D.
is a board-certified neurosurgeon who completed his medical
training at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine
in New Orleans, Louisiana. Afterwards he spent five years
of neurosurgical training at the Medical University of South
Carolina in Charleston. There he worked with the eminent neurosurgeon,
teacher and researcher Dr. Ludwig G. Kempe. Together they
published over a dozen scientific papers.
Dr.
Blaylock, a clinical assistant professor at the University
of Mississippi Medical Center, has written and illustrated
three chapters in medical textbooks and a patient booklet
on multiple sclerosis. For the past sixteen years he has had
a busy private neurosurgical practice. During the course of
his practice he has treated many cases of neurodegenerative
diseases.
In
March of 1989 his father succumbed to the ravages of Parkinson'
disease. This began him on his journey to help others avoid
this terrible experience, resulting in the writing of this
book.
Russell
L. Blaylock, M.D., is a member of the Congress of Neurological
Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons,
Southern Neurosurgical Society, The American Nutritionist
Association, The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral
Nutrition, and the Society of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and
Critical Care.
Dr.
Blaylock enjoys art and drew all of the illustrations in this
book. He lives in Madison, Mississippi with his wife, Diane,
and their two children, Ron and Damien.
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