Name Juhn Wada | Education Hokkaido University | |
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Juhn Atsushi Wada, OC (born March 28, 1924) is a Japanese Canadian neurologist known for research into epilepsy, including his description of the Wada test for cerebral hemispheric dominance of language function.
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Biography
Juhn Wada studied medicine at Hokkaido University, qualifying in 1946 and becoming Doctor of Science in 1951. He worked at the University of Minnesota and the Montreal Neurological Institute before settling at the University of British Columbia in 1956, becoming professor of neurology. He was an associate of the Medical Research Council of Canada from 1966 to 1994. He was the founding president of the Canadian League Against Epilepsy (CLAE) from 1977 to 1979, and president of the American Epilepsy Society in 1988. He was awarded the Wilder Penfield Gold Medal by the CLAE in 1988.
Awards
Wada was awarded as "Ambassador for Epilepsy" by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy in 1981, with the Lennox-Award of the American Epilepsy Society (AES) in 1998, with the Herbert Henri Jasper-Award of the American Cinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) in 2001, and with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ILAE and IBE in 2013. In 1992 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada.