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About the Author
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| Sheldon Margulies, M.D. |
Sheldon Margulies, M.D., is a board-certified
practicing neurologist in Silver Spring, Maryland, and
a member of the American Academy of Neurology. He graduated
from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966,
and Stanford School of Medicine in 1971, completed an
internal medicine residency at McGill University in 1973,
and completed a neurology residency at the University
of California, San Francisco, in 1976. He is also an inactive
member of the Maryland Bar, having graduated from the
University of Baltimore School of Law in 1988. Dr. Margulies
currently holds the rank of clinical assistant professor
in the Department of Neurology at the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, having been a clinical
assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University
and assistant professor of neurology at the University
of Maryland and the University of Alabama.
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| "The Fascinating
Body does not
contain a lot of microscopic detail or sophisticated
chemistry, not because they aren't important,
but because they are unnecessary for a day-to-day
understanding of how the body works."
- Sheldon Margulies, M.D. |
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Dr. Margulies is the author of Everyday Doctoring:
A New Approach to the Logic and Reasoning of Neurology
and Medicine, a textbook on medical and neurologic
physical diagnosis, and coauthor of Learning Law: The
Mastery of Legal Logic, a textbook outlining legal
reasoning. He has also published articles concerning the
postconcussion syndrome and its causes; the medical evidence
for and against the diagnosis of brain damage following
mild head injuries; the Supreme Court's 1993 decision
in Daubert concerning the trial court’s role in
excluding junk science from the courtroom; and the applicability
of Daubert to the use of differential diagnosis
and neuropsychological testing in proving claims of brain
damage.
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