Background
Fifty years of practice
Dr. Dimitrijevic founded the field of Restorative Neurology and is a contributor to the field of Human Neurosciences. During his fifty years of clinical and neurological work, he worked to develop Human Neurophysiology as well as mentored hundreds of post-graduates working in the early development of a new branch of Neurological practices and science. (Atlas of Human Spinal Cord Evoked Potential, M. Dimitrijevic and J. Halter, Karger / Butterworth-Heinemann, 1995, and Restorative Neurology of Spinal Cord Injury, M. Dimitrijevic, B. Kakulas, W. McKay, and G. Vrbova, Oxford University Press, 2012.)
Born in Nis, Serbia, Dr. Dee received his MD in 1955 and his PhD in 1966 from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He continued with post-doctoral training in clinical neurophysiology at the Stockholm School of Medicine and the University Hospital in Ljubljana. He completed fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology at the Schools of Medicine in Marseilles, France and Linkoping, Sweden. Dr. Dimitrijevic was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from the Warsaw Medical Academy, Poland and Linkoping University, Sweden. He also completed fellowships in Radiochemistry in the Institute of Nuclear Science at the University of Belgrade and Neurology at Queens Square in London.
He has held many posts, most recently as the Vivian L. Smith Professor and head of the Division of Restorative Neurology and Human Neurobiology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Principal Investigator for the Foundation of Movement Recovery in Oslo, Norway. Professor Dimitrijevic has published many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on human neurophysiology and the answers it provides for questions involving neurological disorders, with the largest focus on spinal cord injury. Dr. Dimitrijevic has published 224 research reports, 190 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 56 chapters, and 5 books.
