State Library Board
State Library Board President Dr. George Paulson
George Paulson, M. D., is the President of the State Library Board, and in his second term of service. He is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at OSU, and founder and former Chairman of the Department of Neurology, as well as former elected Chief of Staff of University Hospitals. He has published over 250 articles and 4 books, with particular focus on Parkinson’s disease. More recently he has completed several studies in the history of medicine. He served on the Rare Book Committee at OSU, was for a decade Chair of the Medical Library Board for the OSU Medical Center, and is at present the Chair of the Medical Advisory Board for the Medical Heritage Center of the Prior Health Sciences Library at OSU.
In the past 40 years, since arriving from an appointment as the Kennedy Professor at Vanderbilt University and Peabody College in Nashville, Dr. Paulson has served as medical advisor for support groups working to help individuals with multiple sclerosis, tuberous sclerosis, epilepsy, mental retardation, and movement disorders. He is not now in active practice, but consults and teaches for the local state hospital and serves as neurologist for the Free Clinic of Columbus. In addition to national awards, he has received special teaching awards from both Riverside Methodist Hospital and from the OSU College of Medicine. His 5 children and 12 grandchildren are scattered from coast to coast, but his wife of 53 years, an academic dentist and also “Emerita” from OSU, keeps him behaving appropriately, most of the time. Dr. Paulson currently has an office in the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, and as Sub-Editor (in charge of the Medicine and Science section, 100 pages) for the Encyclopedia of the Midwest released in 2007, organized with the faculty of the Humanities a successful new course on the History of OSU.