Stephen Waxman

Stephen George Waxman (an haife shi a shekara ta 1945) ƙwararren likitan jijiyoyi ne kuma masanin kimiyyar jijiyoyi na Amurka. Ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Sashen Nazarin Jijiyoyi a Makarantar Magunguna ta Yale, kuma Babban Likitan Jijiyoyi a Asibitin Yale-New Haven daga 1986 zuwa 2009.  Tun daga shekarar 2023, shi ne Farfesa Bridget Flaherty na Kimiyyar Jijiyoyi, Kimiyyar Jijiyoyi, da Magunguna a Jami'ar Yale. Ya kafa Cibiyar Bincike ta Neuroscience & Regeneration ta Jami'ar Yale a shekara ta 1988 kuma shine darektanta. Ya taɓa riƙe mukamai na malamai a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Harvard, MIT, da Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Stanford .   Shi ma farfesa ne mai ziyara a Kwalejin Jami'ar London. Shi ne babban editan The Neuroscientist . 

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Stephen Waxman a ranar 17 ga Agusta, 1945, kuma ya girma a Newark, New Jersey . Mahaifinsa mai ba da rahoto ne a kotu kuma mahaifiyarsa uwar gida ce. Waxman ya sami digiri na BA daga Jami'ar Harvard (1967), da kuma digiri na PhD (1970) da MD (1972) daga Kwalejin Kiwon Lafiya ta Albert Einstein . Bayan kammala makarantar likita da digiri, Waxman ya horar da shi a matsayin Postdoctoral Fellow a MIT, Clinical Fellow a Harvard Medical School, da kuma Mazaunin asibitin Boston City har zuwa 1975.  Daga nan ya yi aiki a fannin koyarwa a Makarantar Kiwon Lafiya ta Harvard da MIT kafin a dauke shi a shekarar 1978, yana da shekaru 33, a matsayin Farfesa na Neurology a Makarantar Likita ta Jami'ar Stanford da kuma Babban Jami'ar Neurology na Asibitin Gudanar da Tsohon Sojoji na Palo Alto.

 Bincike 
Stephen Waxman ya zama mai sha'awar fiber na jijiyoyi, da kuma yadda suke ɗaukar saƙonni daga kwayar jijiya ɗaya zuwa na gaba a cikin nau'in jijiyoyi, a matsayin dalibi da ke yin bincike a Harvard da Kwalejin Jami'ar London a cikin shekarun 1960. A wannan lokacin, an yi la'akari da cewa jijiyoyin jijiyoyi sun samo asali ne don watsa motsin jijiyoyi daga wannan ƙarshen zuwa ɗayan da sauri. Waxman ya nuna cewa a wasu sassan tsarin juyayi, ƙwayoyin jijiyoyi suna aiki daban kuma suna aiki a matsayin "layin jinkiri", suna ɗauke da bayanai a ƙasa da saurin sauri. Wannan yana faruwa, alal misali, a cikin tsarin motoci inda lokaci yake da mahimmanci kuma lokacin isowar kowane motsi na jijiya dole ne a daidaita shi sosai a cikin dubban na biyu. Wannan aikin farko, da kuma nazarin da suka danganci wanda Waxman ya nuna cewa fiber na jijiya na iya aiki a matsayin matattarar, canzawa da sarrafa wasu saƙonni maimakon kawai watsa su,  ya kafa Waxman a matsayin jagora a cikin binciken kimiyyar kwakwalwa. Ɗaya daga cikin takardun farko na Waxman ya bayyana a cikin Nature yayin da yake ɗalibin likita.url=https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/NRO  

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