Dale Purves

Dale Purves holds the position of Geller Professor of Neurobiology at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, along with additional appointments in the Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at Duke University. He earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1960 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1964. Following further clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, serving as a Peace Corps physician, and completing postdoctoral training at Harvard and University College London, he joined the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in 1973. In 1990, he came to Duke as the founding chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Duke Medical Center and later served as Director of Duke's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience from 2003 to 2009. He also directed the Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore from 2009 to 2013.