Transcript Early Midwest Neurology Part III

History of Neurology
Midwest Neurology Part II
• A.B. Baker, MD
• Russell DeJong, MD
• Norman Allen, MD
• Neurologic Organizations
Midwest Neurology - Minnesota
Abe Bert Baker, MD
(1908-1988)
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B: Minnesota
BS, MD, PhD, and residency at U of Minnesota
PhD thesis on Hemorrhagic Encephabits
1946 Prof and Direction of the Division of Neurology at U
of Minnesota
Chair till 1975
Poliomyelitis in the 40’s – national prominence
introducing tracheostomy
1st President of AAN from 1948-1951
Began education courses at AAN
Books: Clinical Neurology - 1955
– 1st 3 volumes then 3 loose leaf volumes, then 4 loose
leaf volumes, then electronic
– Then ? gone
Baker’s Clinical Neurology
ed Robert Joynt, MD
“My” 3rd line of neurology textbooks: The Encyclopedia
1st Ed - 1955
17th Ed - 1986
Other Editions:
1955, 1962, 1971-2001
29th Ed - 1998
Midwest Neurology - Michigan
Russell DeJong, MD
(1907-1990)
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B Ann Arbor, Michigan
U of Michigan undergrad, Med, & Res
Chairman of the Dept. 1950 - 1976
Editor Neurology from inception (26 years)
Heavily influenced Neurology in USA
Book: The Neurologic Examination -1950
– Based on lectures he gave at U of Michigan
Med School
– The most influential & read book on neurology
exam
– 13 editions - (last was 2013, reissued &
updated by William Campbell, MD)
Midwest Neurology - Ohio
Norman Allen, MD
(1925-1980)
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Undergrad at U of Alabama; Emory
Harvard Med - 1949
Neuro resident/research fellow at Harvard 1950-1955 at
Boston City Hospital (Meritt, Lenox, Schwab, Adams)
Prof U of North Carolina 1955-1965
The Ohio State Univ, Director of Neurology Division - 1965
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Brought south best of Boston medicine
Detailed scholarly assessment of pt history & meticulous
neurologic exams
Attended Medical ethics conference at Princeton
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Chair of Internal Medicine, James Warren, said Allen created “instant
neurology” by rapidly adding 5 faculty & 1st ever residents in neuro
Came up with criteria for brain test at Ohio State
Died of Leukemia
Midwest Neurology - Ohio
Norman Allen, MD
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
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Basic research with Edward Shuttleworth, MD and Nancy
Clendenon, MD
Beta-glucuronidase in:
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Mucopolysaccharidosis
CSF marker for lymphoma. CSF B-Glucuronidase Assay in Diagnosis of
Neoplastic Menigitis. Arch Neurol. 1980;37(11):684-187
Developed model for study & Rx of brain tumors with
colleagues in vet school
Dystonia responsive to levodopa, analysis of familial ALS
Neuro-genetic disorders - in Genetic Disorders of Man, 1970,
with George Paulson
Methyl n-Butyl ketone neuropathy with Jerry Mendell
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Toxic Polyneuropathy Due to Methyl n-Butyl Ketone. Arch Neurol.
1975;32(4):209-218
Midwest Neurology - Ohio
Norman Allen, MD
EARLY RECRUITS IN THE 60’S & 70’S
Jerry Mendell MD
Kottil Rammohan, MD
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Edward Shuttleworth, MD
Jerry Mendell, MD
George Paulson, MD
John Warmolts, MD
Zarife Sahenk, MD
– OSU resident & fellow, faculty
John Warmolts, MD
Zarife Sahenk, MD
George Paulson, MD
• Kottil Rammohan, MD
Midwest Neurology – Neurologic Organizations
American Neurologic Association (ANA)
• ANA Began in 1875
• Hammond (NY), Seguin (NY), Putnam (Boston), Mitchell (Phil),
Boudy (St. GR), Hun (Albany), Pepper (Phil), Wood (Phil)
• James Stewart Jewell (1837-87) 1st president
• Until recently, limited to senior Neurologists with publications
and academic credentials
Midwest Neurology – Neurologic Organizations
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
• AAN Began in 1948
• Established so young Neurologists could have a society with
educational programs
• A resident at Univ. Michigan (Joseph Resch) in 1947 told A.B.
Baker about need for education program
– 1st Meeting – 1948; French Lick, Indiana
– AB Baker 1st President (1948-1951)
Midwest Neurology – Neurologic Organizations
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
(ABPN)
• ABPN began in 1934
• Original members from American Psychiatry Association, ANA,
Section of Nervous and Mental Disorders Forum of the AMA
• Began exams in 1934
• Established criteria for training