Sidney Gilman is an American retired physician, neurologist, and educator. He is an expert on Alzheimer's disease and has spent the majority of his career at the University of Michigan, its medical school, and its Health System.
Early life, family and education
Gilman was raised in California. In 1950, he graduated from Huntington Park High School in Huntington Park, California.
He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for his undergraduate degree in 1954 and its medical school in 1957, receiving the highest academic honors. During his college years, he was a gymnastics athlete. He completed a neurophysiology fellowship from 1958 to 1960 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In exchange for lighter punishment, Gilman agreed to testify and implicate Mathew Martoma of CR Intrinsic, a company affiliated with the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors.
- 1973: Lucy G. Moses Prize in Basic Neurology
- 2010: Medical Center Alumni Society Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Michigan