Dr. Wagner earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his M.D. from Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N. C., in 1966.His distinguished medical career includes ten years as Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale University, seventeen years as Professor and Department Chair of Neurological Surgery at the University of California—Davis, School of Medicine. Dr. Wagner has also served as Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago.He co-edited the textbook Craniospinal Trauma.In 1990 he was honored by Duke University Medical Center as a recipient of the prestigious Wakeman Award for Research in the Neurosciences. He and other co-authors of the “Acute Spinal Cord Injury II,” published in the New England Journal of Medicine, received the Wakeman Award for their work in spinal cord injury.Dr. Wagner is a retired Captain in the U.S.N.R. and has served on the vestry of churches in both Connecticut and California. He enjoys reading, music, sports cars, and family activities.