Pierre Pollak
Pierre Pollak · Science & Medicine
Neurologist, pioneer of deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson disease
1950
France (Grenoble) · Switzerland (Geneva)
Pierre Pollak is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Neurologist, pioneer of deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson disease
The French neurologist Pierre Pollak, working with neurosurgeon Alim-Louis Benabid in Grenoble, pioneered high-frequency deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease in the late 1980s—a therapy that has since relieved symptoms for hundreds of thousands of patients. He is listed in directories of Jewish contributors to biomedical science; his personal religious background is not otherwise documented in the sources consulted.
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Neurologist, pioneer of deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson disease
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
