Dr. Mark Fisher "Introduction to Neuropolitics"

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"An Introduction to Neuropolitics" Mark J. Fisher, MD UC Irvine School of Medicine Mark Fisher, M.D., if a professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine. He also holds appointments in the departments of anatomy and neurobiology, political science, and pathology and laboratory medicine, as well as the Beckman Laser Institute, and is a member of UCI MIND. Fisher earned a master's degree in government from the University of South Dakota in 1972 and a bachelor of science in medicine from USD in 1973. He received a medical degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1975 and completed neurology training at UCLA-Wadsworth VA Medical Center. He joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in 1980, where he established the first stroke program in Southern California. At UCI, he served as chair of the Department of Neurology from 1998 to 2006 and led it into the top 10 nationally for National Institutes of Health research funding. Fisher has had continuous NIH stroke research funding since 1984 and has received more than 75 citations of clinical excellence as a stroke neurologist. In 2021, he was named director of the UCI Center for Neuropolitics, and in 2023, he received the UCI School of Medicine Innovation in Mentoring Award. In 2025 he as awarded the Pillar of Discovery Award from the College of Arts & Sciences at USD.