Abraão (Abraham) Akerman, Russian-born Brazilian neurosurgeon (Petrograd, Russia  27 February 1908 – Rio de Janeiro 19 July 1985)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Gained international recognition for his studies concerning central nervous system diseases

Described Alajouanine-Akerman ataxic unstable hand

With T. A.J. Alajouanine. Attitude de la main dans une poussée monobrachiale astéréognosique de la sclérose en plaques. Rev. Neurol. 1:318-322, 1931.

Published with Paulo Niemeyer and Barreto Neto the paper Arterite de célula gigante (Arterite Temporal). Med. Cirurgia e Farm. (Rio de Janeiro) 252:117, 1957, that gained success in United States and USSR. 

OTHERS

Visiting Professor, Mount Sinai School, University of New York