Members - American Academy of Neurology

since 1948
Many years ago, I was a young neurologist who was fortunate to be the right-
hand man for Dr. Adolph Sahs at the University of Iowa. At the time, he was
working with A.B. Baker, Russell DeJong, Frank Forster, and Joe Brown on a new
organization for neurologists, and Dr. Sahs asked me to help out. I was honored to
help fulfill the vision of this august group, and I signed up as the sixth member of
the American Academy of Neurology. We had our first organizational meeting in
Chicago during the American Medical Association’s annual meeting, and it was a
very exciting time. We knew our profession needed to come together, we knew there
was strength in numbers. Our first Annual Meeting was the next year, 1949, in
French Lick Springs, Indiana, and I’ve been to nearly every Annual Meeting since.
And boy, how those membership numbers have grown!
I can’t begin to describe how the Academy has changed over the years, but I
can tell you one thing that hasn’t changed and I trust will never change: the AAN
has always been improving and responding to the needs of its members. Whether
you are a practicing neurologist, a researcher, or professor of neurology, you know
that to be a member of the AAN is to associate yourself with the best and the
brightest in our profession.
PReFAce
— Clark H. Millikan, MD —
Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
Member since 1948