Ted Burns

 

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The Guest Editor of this issue on Neuromuscular Disorders is Ted Burns from the University of Virginia. Dr. Burns did both his undergraduate work and attended Medical School at the University of Kansas. He trained in neurology at the University of Virginia. He then did a Fellowship in Neuromuscular Disease and Electromyography at the University of Virginia followed by a Fellowship in Peripheral Nerve Disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the Director of the Electromyography Laboratory at the University of Virginia and an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine.

Dr. Burns is the Section Editor and the Host of the Neurology podcast. Having had the wonderful opportunity of participating in a podcast, I was terribly impressed by how well organized Dr. Burns was and how much fun I had with the podcast. I have since become a groupie and listen to the podcasts regularly. Dr. Burns has an exceptional broadcasting voice and rivals Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion in both his delivery and his knowledge.

Dr. Burns is an exceptional teacher and clinician. He has received the James Q. Miller Teaching Award, the Dean's Teaching Award of Excellence, and a Master Educator Award from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He has been elected into the Academy of Distinguished Educators at the University of Virginia. He has been recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Neurology Residents and was invited to participate in the 2006 Leadership in Academic Medicine sponsored by the University of Virginia. His colleagues have voted him into Best Doctors in America. I have been a first hand witness to his teaching and clinical skills. When we invited him to Indiana University as a Visiting Professor, the Neurology Residents decided they wanted to have him do a CPC. They chose a very complicated patient with HIV and inclusion body myositis. I asked our Residents if they thought it was kind to choose such a complicated case for our guest, and they told me that if Dr. Burns was as good as Dr. Pascuzzi—and I said he was—he should have no problem. And that is exactly what happened. He nailed the diagnosis.

Dr. Burns is a master diagnostician, a gifted teacher, and a valued friend. We are very grateful to him and to all of the contributors to this issue of Seminars in Neurology for providing us with a comprehensive monograph on the evaluation and management of neuromuscular disorders.

Karen L RoosM.D. 

Indiana University School of Medicine

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