Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (2017) Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professorship, Yale University School of Medicine (2015 - ) Yale Graduate Mentor Award (2015).
Hal Blumenfeld (born March 28, 1962) is a professor of neurology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery[1] at Yale University.
[5] Blumenfeld was born in California, grew up in New York and began his career in Bio-electrical Engineering at Harvard University (1984).
[6] His passion for science would lead him to Columbia University where, working with Eric Kandel and Steven Siegelbaum, he obtained his PhD (1990) in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics and his MD (1992).
Using multiple modalities of brain imaging in humans and animal models, his research has made contributions towards determining why children with absence seizures become unconscious.