Major Appointments
Associate attending surgeon at the Laboratory of Neurocytology at Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University (1921–1928)
Medical Faculty of Columbia University (1921–1928)
Medical Faculty of McGill (1928)
Neurosurgeon at Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal General Hospital (1928)
First Director of Montreal Neurological Institute (1934–1960)
Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at McGill University (1934–1960)
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University (1933–1954)
Founder and President of the Vanier Institute of the Family (1965–1968)
Major Honors and Awards
Rhodes Scholarship
Beit Memorial Research Fellowship at Oxford University
President of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
President of the American Neurological Association
Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Companion of the Order of Canada (1967)
Honorary degrees from Princeton, Oxford, McGill, and Montreal
First recipient of the $50,000 Royal Bank Centennial...
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Prosje, M.A. (2018). Penfield, Wilder (1891–1976). In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_649
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