Fascinating Education

Sheldon Margulies, M.D., a retired neurologist, understands how the brain works.  This includes how we learn, how we focus our attention, how we retrieve information, and how emotion and motivation affect learning. Dr. Margulies attended law school, taught neurology to over 2500 medical students and residents, and authored three educational textbooks.  Throughout his career, he has honed his teaching skills and is now applying them to improve the way science is taught.  He hopes to inspire our youth to pursue careers in science.

Dr. Margulies graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966, and Stanford School of Medicine in 1971, completed an internal medicine residency at McGill University in 1973, and completed a neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco in 1976. In 1988, he graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Dr. Margulies has been an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Alabama and University of Maryland, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Uniformed Services Medical School, and Howard University Medical School. Dr. Margulies is also an inactive Maryland Bar. He has written three educational textbooks, Everyday Doctoring: A New Approach to the Logic and Reasoning of Neurology and Medicine (1986), Learning Law (1992), and The Fascinating Body: How It Works (2004).