Lecturer: Daniel A. Drubach, MD
Daniel A. Drubach, MD, was born in Argentina and graduated from medical school at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires. He completed training in neurology and psychiatry and a fellowship in neurorehabilitation at the University of Maryland, where he then served as head of the Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program and of the Coma Emergency Program for several years. He then joined the Division of Behavioral Neurology at Mayo Clinic, where he has worked for the past 17 years. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and he is associate director of the Behavioral Neurology Fellowship program. His clinical interest is in the management of various dementias, including neurodegenerative disorders and autoimmune and paraneoplastic processes. He is active in the training of medical students, residents, and fellows.
Dr. Drubach is also highly interested in 2 other areas of neuroscience. The first is social cognition, which consists of the cognitive processes involved in relating with other humans. These processes include of mind, empathy, deceit, and moral standing. The second is neuro-ontology and neuro-existentialism, which consist of the neuroscience of being and incorporate the neural processes involved in religion, meditation, free choice, and other areas. He has written extensively on these topics and lectured at multiple academic facilities worldwide. He has given a TED presentation on the theory of mind. He received the prestigious Hero Award from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
In this Sigma Xi lecture, Dr. Drubach will discuss one of the most fascinating and yet less understood human cognitive functions: imagination.