Thomas Allen Woolsey (born 17 April 1943) is an American neuroscientist, currently George H. and Ethel R. Bishop Scholar in Neuroscience at

Washington University School of Medicine Washington University School of Medicine (WashU Medicine) is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis, located in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1891, the School of Medicine shares a ca ...

. He was born in Baltimore, studied for his B.S. at the

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(awarded 1965) and was awarded Doctor of Medicine at

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in 1969. He was assistant professor of anatomy (and later also neurobiology) at

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from 1971 to 1977, becoming an associate professor from 1977 to 1983, and professor of neurology and neurological surgery since 1984.

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