Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. In 1992, he established the Mayo Clinic Neurocritical Care Program. He was the founding editor of Neurocritical Care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society and has been named Honorary Member of the Neurocritical Care Society. He originated the FOUR SCORE coma scale and has over 1000 research papers, practice guidelines, topic reviews, book chapters, and editorials to his credit, as well as having single-authored, co-authored, and edited 35 books on neurocritical care. Dr. Wijdicks is also an attending neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester, MN, and is a Professor of the History of Medicine. He is the recipient of the Dutch Winkler medal, the Karis Award, and the Distinguished Educator Award.
Dr. Wijdicks has studied medical representation in cinema and written scholarly film reviews for medical journals and has published on the interface between psychiatry and neurology. This book is part of a series on medicine in film and includes Cinema, MD, Neurocinema, and Neurocinema: The Sequel.