Description: Currently Dr. Cantu’s professional responsibilities include those of Medical Director and Director of Clinical Research, Dr. Robert C.
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Currently Dr. Cantu’s professional responsibilities include those of Medical Director and Director of Clinical Research, Dr. Robert C. Cantu Concussion Center at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, Clinical Professor of Neurology, Clinical and Therapeutics Leader AD and Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine , Boston, MA; Founding member and Medical Director Concussion Legacy Foundation , Boston, MA; Adjunct Professor Exercise and Sport Science and Med
He grew up in the northern California community of Santa Rosa. In 1960, he received his B.A. degree from the University of California Berkley where he pitched on the varsity baseball team. Jointly, in medical school and graduate school, he received his M.A. degree in endocrinology in 1962, and in 1963, his M.D. from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Following a surgical internship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1963-1964, he began a neurosurgery residency a