Clifford B Saper MD

Summary

• Clifford Saper, MD, is a neurology specialist located in Boston, MA, with a subspecialty in movement disorders. He completed his medical education at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine in 1977, followed by an internship in internal medicine and a residency in neurology at Cornell. He has served on the faculty of Washington University and the University of Chicago, and is currently the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He served as the Chair of the Harvard Neurology Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 1992-2021, and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians, and a fellow of the AAAS, AAN, ANA, and Royal College of Physicians (London). His research publications, which include work focused on brain circuits regulating wake-sleep, circadian rhythms, thermoregulation and central autonomic control, have been cited more than 60,000 times.