David Van Dyke, M.D.
Professor, Neurology & Pediatrics

Academic Appointments

• 2004-present: Professor, Michigan State University, Neurology
• 1980-present: Professor, Michigan State University, Pediatrics
• 1979-1980: Associate Professor, University of Nebraska, Neurology and Pediatrics
• 1976-1979: Associate Professor of Neurology and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Neurology and Pediatrics
• 1970-1976: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester, Pediatrics and Neurology

Postdoctoral Training

• 1969: Fellow in Neurology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston
• 1969: Fellow in Medicine (Neurology), Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston
• 1968-1970: Fellow in Neurology, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston
• 1966-1967: Fellow in Pharmacology, University of Michigan
• 1965-1968: Resident, University of Michigan, Neurology
• 1964-1965: Intern, Medical College of Virginia

Education

• M.D., University of Michigan, 1964
• B.A., Hope College, Chemistry, 1960

I was born and raised in Grand Rapids, attended Hope College and the University of Michigan Medical School. I did internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia, neurology residency at the University of Michigan and Harvard at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. My pediatric neurology training was at Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital. I had post doctoral fellowships in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, and in the research laboratories of The Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Boston (Harvard).

After many years on the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and as Division Chairman at the University of Nebraska I was in private practice in Grand Rapids, MI. I have been at Michigan State since 2004.

Child neurology is my medical specialty, with Board Certification in Neurology With Special Competence in Child Neurology (ABPN).

My clinical interests are childhood neurological difficulties, for example, cerebral palsy, migraine headaches, seizure disorders, disorders of motor movement, and developmental delay.

Throughout my medical career I have recognized the importance of teaching child neurology to medical students and residents in neurology and pediatrics. My teaching awards from medical students and residents have encouraged my career and given me great satisfaction.