David Zee began his scientific career at The Johns Hopkins University in 1965 as a medical student. For just about a half a century, Dr. Zee has been a member of the Johns Hopkins Medical community, with a special interest in vision and eye movements, cerebellar function and motor learning, and vestibular disorders. His research combines studies in experimental models of disease, and in human patients and normal subjects, all aimed at understanding brain function and neurological disease. He has been Professor since 1985. Among his accomplishments has been coauthor of the textbook, The Neurology of Eye Movements with Dr. R. John Leigh, and the fifth edition is to be published in 2015. He received the Ottorino Rossi prize from the University of Pavia in Italy, the Koetser Foundation for Brain Research Prize in Zurich, the Hallpike-Nylen Medal of the Barany Society in Sweden, and he gave the inaugural Swithin Meadows Lecture in London, the inaugural Houston Merritt Lecture of the American Academy of Neurology, and the inaugural Alfred Kestenbaum Lecture in Wurzburg, Germany. He was the inaugural Visiting Neurology Educator at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He has trained over 55 fellows or visiting scientists and has coauthored over 435 scientific papers. He has had continuous grant support from the National Institutes of Health since 1976, which included a special 10 year merit award.