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Edward L. Westbrook, MD

Edward L. Westbrook, MD

Edward L. Westbrook, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology, Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Associate Director of the Neurology Residents Clinics

Specialty

  • Multiple sclerosis
  • General Neurology

Education and Training

  • Fellowship: Neuropathology, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, OH
  • Residency: Neurology, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, OH
  • Residency: Internal Medicine, St. Luke's Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, IL
  • Medical School: Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY

Board Certification

  • Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Research Interests

  • General neurology

Biography

Dr. Westbrook trained in neurology with Maurice Victor (Victor and Adams, Principles of Neurology, now in the 11th Edition) at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital where he was Chief Resident. Neurology training had followed two years of Internal Medicine at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital (now Rush) in Chicago. At the completion of residency he joined the Attending Staff at the Cleveland Clinic for 5 years. Carrying out a long desire to be a private consultant neurologist, he went into practice on the east side of Cleveland where he was Section Chairman of Neurology in three different hospitals and on the Board of Trustees of one of those hospitals.

In 1990 after 13 years in practice he became a full time member of the Department of Neurology at University Hospital of Cleveland where he was Vice Chairman of Neurology for 12 years under three different departmental chairman. Retiring from full time neurology in 2015, he has remained as a Neurology Resident Continuity Clinic attending one half day a week since that time. He is a two time recipient of the Robert B. Daroff Teaching Excellence Award. His major emphasis in neurology has been clinical practice, teaching, and administrative work. He served 11 years from 1991 to 2004 on the American Academy of Neurology Legislative Affairs Committee in the area of reform of the US Health Care delivery system.