Undergrad - Furman University, BS Biology
Graduate - Georgia State University, Physical Chemistry (Thermodynamics)
Med school - Medical College of Georgia
Boston City Hospital
Volunteer neurologist, Free Medical Clinic of Columbia SC
Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
AOA National Medical Honor Society lifetime member
South Carolina Neurological Society
President 1997-1999 and 2013-2015
USC (Columbia) School of Medicine Neurology Department 2011-2014 Assistant Professor and Clerkship director
I find neuroscience fascinating and challenging. The patients make the challenges worthwhile. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy in his speech in September 1962 outlining the goal to land on the moon, "we choose to … do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills". Truly, the human nervous system is "the final frontier". The challenges faced by patients with ALS/MND, Parkinsonism, movement disorders, dementias as well as other neurodegenerative conditions have long been a particular concern of mine and I am looking forward to a fresh, patient-centered approach with Synapticure.
In my free time, I enjoy sailing off of the Carolina coast, reading, and enjoying a number of dogs and cats, a horse and a pig, along with the multitude of wildlife, who reside on a small farm with my wife and me.
Swam the Chattooga River in North Georgia (from the movie “Deliverance”) while in college.
Paolini S, Burdine J, Verenes M, Webster J, Faber T, et al. (2013) Rapid Short MRI Sequence Useful in Eliminating Stroke Mimics Among Acute Stroke Patients Considered for Intravenous Thrombolysis. J Neurol Disord 1: 137. doi:10.4172/2329-6895.1000137
Faber T, Rippy A, Brian Hyslop W, Hinderliter A, Sen S (2013) Cardiovascular MRI in Detection and Measurement of Aortic Atheroma in Stroke/ TIA patients. J Neurol Disord 1: 139. doi:10.4172/2329-6895.1000139
Shephard T, Hillman D, Lawrence N, Faber T, Carlson R, Gunnell B, Schlietz D, Ehrlich M, Oktay L, Perina D, Cote J, Caddell-Gordon D, McMurray T, Southerland A, Wibberly K, Solinski N. Rural Emergency Quality Improvement Tele Stroke Evidence-Based Project (Rural EQUIT-e). Poster session presented at Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center Telehealth Summit 2015; 2015 March 29-31; Sulphur Springs, WV.
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