José Enrique Cavazos is a Mexican-American physician-scientist. He is a professor and associate dean of the MD/PhD program at the

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Early life and education

Jose Enrique Cavazos was born in

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. He completed a M.D.,

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at the

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. In 1993, he earned a Ph.D., cum laude in neuroscience under the guidance of Thomas Sutula at the

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(UW). He completed an internship in internal medicine the same year at UW. In 1996, he completed a residency in neurology at

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. He subsequently completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Duke in 1997.

Career

Dr. Cavazos was an assistant professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Health Science Center between 1997 and 2000. He earned a NIH K08 award to study neurophysiology of temporal lobe epilepsy. In October 2000, he joined the

where he established a research laboratory at the Audie L. Murphy Veterans Administration Medical Center. He rose thru the academic ranks becoming an Associate Professor with Tenure in 2008, and was promoted to Professor of Neurology in 2011. He became the assistant dean of the MD/PhD program at the

in 2011, and was promoted to Associate Dean for Research overseeing career development and research education training programs overseeing MD/PhD, residents and fellows, and junior research faculty. He was inducted into the UT Shine Academy of Health Educators in 2020. He has served in over 30 NIH study sections and several FDA Advisory Panels for neurological drugs and devices. Cavazos has over 60 original research manuscripts and 10 patents within the scope of epilepsy, neurological disorders, and medical research education.

Awards and honors

Cavazos received the 2017

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's 2017 Distinguished Service Award. He was elected as Fellow of the

American Academy of Neurology The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is a professional society representing over 40,000 neurologists and neuroscientists. As a medical specialty society it was established in 1948 by A.B. Baker of the University of Minnesota to advance the a ...

American Neurological Association The American Neurological Association (ANA) is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic ...

, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, and

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