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After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in biology, Dr. Sax began the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn in 1986 with a Ph.D. in psychology and the M.D. degree. He went on to do a 3-year residency in family practice at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Since completing that residency in 1989, he has been in full-time clinical practice as a family physician. In 1990, he launched a practice in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland, about 30 minutes northwest of the District of Columbia.
In 1841, Sax relocated permanently to Paris and began work on a new set of instruments which were exhibited there in 1844. They were valved bugles, and although he had not invented the instrument itself, his examples were so much more successful than those of his rivals that they became known as saxhorns. They range in approximately seven different sizes, and paved the path to the creation of the flugelhorn. Today, they are widely used in concert bands and sometimes in orchestras. The saxhorn ... laid the groundwork for the modern euphonium. Sax also developed the saxtromba family, valved brass instruments with narrower bore than the saxhorns, in 1845, though they survived only briefly.[1]
The Brian M. Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy was established in memory of the 1969 Boalt alumnus by his family, colleagues, and friends following his death in 1997. It honors Sax's enthusiasm for the practice of law and his dedication to teaching. The Sax Prize, initially a $500 award, was increased to $1000 in 2006. It is given each spring semester to a graduating student who, during his or her law school career, has displayed excellence in advocacy and professional judgment on behalf of clients in a Boalt Hall in-house or faculty-sponsored clinic. The first prize was given in 1998, and the names of each year's recipients are inscribed on a plaque located in the lobby of Simon Hall and posted here.
Dr. Sax joined the staff of Hyde Park Pediatrics in 1990. In addition to her responsibilities here, she has maintained close ties to both Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital. She holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School as a Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics. At Children’s Hospital. Dr. Sax holds admitting privileges at several other hospitals in the Boston area, including MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women’s, Beth Israel Deaconess, and Milton.
The Brian M. Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy was established in his memory by his family, colleagues, and friends. The Sax Prize is awarded each spring to a graduating student who has best displayed excellence in advocacy and professional judgment on behalf of clients while participating in a clinic sponsored by Boalt.
Because he is both a family physician and a research psychologist, Dr. Sax has attracted many families with "problem children" to his practice. Over the years the word has spread, so that now Dr. Sax's practice includes many children with a variety of psychological problems -- as well as a healthy share of perfectly normal kids and high-achieving kids. Unlike most other experts writing on child development, Dr. Sax has experience with kids from every segment of society and every kind of classroom: straight-A students from elite private schools in Bethesda and Potomac, as well as kids struggling with remedial reading in the public school system.
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