Eelco FM Wijdicks Author & Editor

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD, FACP, FNCS is Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, established the Mayo Neurocritical Care Specialty and is an attending neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. He was the founding editor of the journal Neurocritical Care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society. He has been named Honorary Member of the Neurocritical Care Society. He is also a Professor of the History of Medicine and former president of the International Society of the History of Neurosciences. He has over 1000 research papers, practice guidelines, topic reviews, book chapters and editorials to his credit. He originated the FOUR Score coma scale. He has single-authored and co-authored 20 books on Neurocritical Care with multiple later editions and edited 6 books on Emergency Neurology.