UAB Synopsis, Vol. 24, No. 33, September 12, 2005
Professor of Neurology R. Edward Faught, Jr., MD, has won the 2005 Hans Berger Lecturer Award from the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The annual Berger Award has been given for the past 33 years to an internationally prominent clinician and researcher in the fields of epilepsy and electrophysiology. It is presented in memory of Hans Berger, the German psychiatrist who was the first person to prove the existence of electric potentials (voltage fluctuations) in the human brain using an amplifying machine (an electroencephalograph). He recorded the first human electroencephalogram (EEG).
The citation reads, "VCU Medical Center, in the tradition of the Medical College of Virginia, presents to R. Edward Faught, Jr., MD, the Hans Berger Lecturer Award for outstanding contributions in electrophysiology, epilepsy, and neuroscience." At the Berger Symposium in Richmond. Dr. Faught presented a lecture, entitled "Choosing the Right Antiepileptic Drug." Dr. Faught is founder and director of UAB's Epilepsy Center.