William W. Campbell

The Guest Editor of this issue of Seminars in Neurology on Disorders of the Cranial Nerves is William W. Campbell, M.D., M.S.H.A.

Dr. Campbell is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda Maryland, and a Colonel in the United States Air Force. He did his undergraduate work at Emory University and went to Medical School at the Medical College of Georgia. He trained in neurology at Wilford Hall, United States Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas and at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco. He then did a Fellowship in Neuromuscular Disease and Electromyography at the Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Campbell is the author of DeJong's Neurologic Examination, 6th Edition, published in 2005, Pocket Guide and Toolkit to DeJong's Neurologic Examination, published in 2007, and Essentials of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He is co-author of A Practical Primer of Clinical Neurology and Section Editor of Polyneuropathies in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Disease. Essentials of Electrodiagnostic Medicine received an Honorable Mention in the 1999 American Medical Writers Association Annual Book Competition. In addition, he has written an incredible number of peer-reviewed articles, monographs, and book chapters.

Dr. Campbell has received several Outstanding Teacher Awards, the Presidential Research Initiative Award from the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, a Certificate of Commendation from the Joint Office of Technology Transfer, and my personal favorite, Order of the Giraffe for withstanding +9 G as experimental subject in human centrifuge as part of F-15 fighter development program. He has provided a remarkable amount of service to our country, the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

It has been a great privilege to have worked with him on this issue of Seminars in Neurology. It has also been a tremendous joy. I thank him for recruiting such a wonderful group of authors, for putting so much work into editing each manuscript, and for making working with him such a memorable experience for me.