User:WyomingEpilepsyCenter/David B Wheeler, MD, PhD

Current Positions

Owner, Wyoming Neurologic Associates, LLC

Chief of Staff, Wyoming Medical Center

Vice President of the Medical Staff, Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation Hospital

Chairman, Wyoming Neuroscience and Spine Institute

Medical Director, Wyoming Medical Center Stroke Program

Medical Director, Wyoming Epilepsy Center

Adjunct Faculty, University of Wyoming Residency Program in Family Practice/Neurology

Special Interests

Seizures and Epilepsy

Stroke, TeleStroke

Movement disorders

Dementia and memory disorders

Training

Fellow, Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG, Epilepsy and Evoked Potentials), Division of EEG and Epilepsy, Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 7/04-6/05

Resident, Neurology, Departments of Neurology, Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, 7/01-6/04

Intern, Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's and Faulkner Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, 7/00-6/01

Education

M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, 9/91-6/00.

Ph.D., Neurosciences Program, Stanford University School of Medicine. Thesis title: Identification of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels Involved in Regulation of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in Rat Hippocampus; Research Advisor: Richard W. Tsien, 1/93-1/98.

M.Sc., Faculty of Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford. Thesis title: In Vivo Monitoring of Striatal Neurochemistry: Neurotransmitter Interactions During Behaviour; Research Supervisor: Dr. Marianne Fillenz, St. Anne's College, 10/89-9/91.

B.A. with High Honors, Zoological Sciences (Chemistry Minor), University of Montana, 9/84-6/89.

Awards

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 1993-1998.

Rhodes Scholarship, Montana and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, 1989-1991.

Watkins Scholarship for Senior Project, University of Montana, 1988-1989.

University of Montana Presidential Award of Merit, University of Montana, 1988.

Silent Sentinel Award for Academic Excellence, University of Montana, 1988.

Licensure and Certification

Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2005.

Added Qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology, 2007

Registered Physician, State of Wyoming, 2004.

Membership

American Medical Association

American Academy of Neurology

American Stroke Association Pacific/Mountain Affiliate Board Member

American Epilepsy Society

Wyoming Medical Society

Wyoming Neurological Society President elect

Natrona County Medical Society