Austin J SUMNER

BMedSc (NZ) 1960, MMedSc (NZ) 1st class hons 1961, MB ChB (Otago) 1963, MRACP 1967, FRACP 1973, Hon MA (Penn) 1976

Born Hokitika 24 Aug 1938

Austin Sumner

Educated at Wellington College

HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1964 - 1965

Medical Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1966

Senior Registrar in Neurology, Wellington Hospital 1967

Senior HP in Neurology, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London 1968 - 1971

Consultant Neurologist, Wellington Hospital 1971 (Jan - Jul)

 

 

 

photograph courtesy Austin Sumner

Attending Physician, University of California Hospital; San Fransisco General Hospital; Ft. Miley VA Hospital 1971 - 1974

Director, EMG Laboratory, Moffet Hospital, San Fransisco 1971 - 1974

Chief of Neurology, Philadelphia General Hospital 1974 - 1977

Attending Physician, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia 1974 - 1988

Director, Neurodiagnostic Laboratories, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania

1974 - 1988

Medical Staff, Hotel Dieu Hospital, New Orleans 1988 - 1993

Attending Physician, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans 1988 - present

Medical Director, Institute for Neurological Disorders, Hotel Dieu Hospital, New Orleans 1988 - 1993

Medical Staff, University Hospital, New Orleans, and Director of Institute of Neurological Disorders, University Hospital, New Orleans 1993 - present

Richard M. Paddison Professor of Neurology 1994 - 2013

Professor and Head Emeritus, Department of Neurology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans 2013 - present

 

Last updated 29 October 2016.