scholarly journals The history of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester

2014 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 989-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristopher T. Kimmell ◽  
Anthony L. Petraglia ◽  
Robert Bakos ◽  
Thomas Rodenhouse ◽  
Paul K. Maurer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester has a long legacy of excellent patient care and innovation in the neurosciences. The department's founder, Dr. William Van Wagenen, was a direct pupil of Harvey Cushing and the first president of the Harvey Cushing Society. His successor, Dr. Frank P. Smith, was also a leader in organized neurosurgery and helped to permanently memorialize his mentor with an endowed fellowship that today is one of the most prestigious training awards in neurosurgery. The first 2 chiefs are honored every year by the department with memorial invited lectureships in their names. The department is home to a thriving multidisciplinary research program that fulfills the lifelong vision of its founder, Dr. Van Wagenen.

The history of neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Erin J. Torell ◽  
Tyler S. Pistone ◽  
Andrew P. Gard
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Private Practice ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Resident Training ◽  
Nebraska Medical ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has grown considerably from one neurosurgeon in 1923 into a first-class department with diverse subspecialty care and innovative faculty. Founding neurosurgeon Dr. J. Jay Keegan, a student of Harvey Cushing, instituted a legacy of clinical and research excellence that he passed on to his successors. The department created a lecture series to honor Keegan’s pioneering techniques and impact in the field, featuring prominent neurosurgeons from across the country. Keegan’s successors, such as Dr. Lyal Leibrock, grew the department through a unique partnership with private practice. The current faculty has continued the tradition of exceptional resident training and innovative patient care.

Barnes Hospital and the Washington University Medical Center

1992 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry G. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Medical Center ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neurological Surgery ◽  
The University ◽  
Washington University ◽  
New Location

✓ The author documents the development of the Medical School at Washington University since 1891, when the St. Louis Medical College was first included as part of the University. In 1909, Robert Brookings, President of the Corporation of Washington University, acquired a large endowment and moved the clinical and hospital facilities to a new location, enabled by the estate of Robert Barnes. Harvey Cushing was offered the chair of surgery but eventually decided in favor of Harvard University in 1910. Dr. Ernest Sachs was recruited to Washington University by Dr. Fred Murphy, and in 1919 became the first ever Professor of Neurological Surgery. The history of neurosurgery and those who served it at the Washington University Medical Center and Barnes Hospital is recounted.

GENESIS OF THE USE OF CORTICOSTEROIDS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF BRAIN EDEMA

Neurosurgery ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shearwood McClelland ◽  
Donlin M. Long
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Brain Edema ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recurrent Glioblastoma ◽  
High Dose ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Since the groundbreaking article from the University of Minnesota in 1961 by Drs. Galicich, French, and Melby describing the use of dexamethasone for peritumoral cerebral edema, the use of corticosteroids in patients with brain tumors has become routine. Unfortunately, little has been reported regarding the environment that fostered arguably the greatest translational research contribution in the history of neurosurgery. METHODS During a pilot study to assess corticosteroid uptake in brain tumors, Dr. Galicich observed that patients given a large dose of corticosteroids just before craniotomy had a relatively benign postoperative course. This led, in October 1959, to the administration of high-dose corticosteroids to a patient with a large recurrent glioblastoma who was semicomatose and severely hemiparetic. The results were dramatic, with almost complete resolution of neurological deficit during a period of several days and marked reduction of midline shift on repeat angiograms. This finding prompted the studies that confirmed the efficacy of high-dose corticosteroids in reducing peritumoral brain edema in humans reported in the 1961 article. RESULTS After publication, a revolution in brain tumor management occurred because corticosteroid therapy markedly reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with brain tumors both in the United States and worldwide. CONCLUSION The combination of astute clinical observation and follow up by rigorous clinical research at the University of Minnesota resulted in one of the greatest contributions in the history of neurosurgery, rivaled only by the operative microscope in its effect on morbidity, and unsurpassed in reduction of mortality.

The "Plant Drosophila": E. B. Babcock, the Genus Crepis, and the Evolution of a Genetics Research Program at Berkeley, 1915––1947

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Evolutionary Genetics ◽  
Experimental System ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Of Agriculture ◽  
Genetics Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genetic Mechanisms ◽  
The University

This paper explores the research and administrative efforts of Ernest Brown Babcock, head of the Division of Genetics in the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley, the first academic unit so named in the United States. It explores the rationale for his choice of "model organism," the development——and transformation——of his ambitious genetics research program centering on the weedy plant genus named Crepis (commonly known as the hawkbeard), along with examining in detail the historical development of the understanding of genetic mechanisms of evolutionary change in plants leading to the period of the evolutionary synthesis. Chosen initially as the plant counterpart of Thomas Hunt Morgan's Drosophila melanogaster, the genus Crepis instead came to serve as the counterpart of Theodosius Dobzhansky's Drosophila pseudoobscura, leading the way in plant evolutionary genetics, and eventually providing the first comprehensive systematic treatise of any genus that was part of the movement known as biosystematics, or the "new" systematics. The paper also suggests a historical rethinking of the application of the terms model organism, research program, and experimental system in the history of biology.

The history of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Visish M. Srinivasan ◽  
Caroline C. Hadley ◽  
Akash J. Patel ◽  
Bruce L. Ehni ◽  
Howard L. Weiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residency Program ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Baylor College ◽  
Texas Medical ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Md Anderson ◽  
The University

The development of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine began with the medical school’s relocation to the new Texas Medical Center in Houston in 1943. An academic service was organized in 1949 as a section of neurosurgery within Baylor’s Department of Surgery. Soon the practice, led by Dr. George Ehni, evolved to include clinical services at Methodist, Jefferson Davis (forerunner of Ben Taub), Texas Children’s, the Veterans Affairs, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center hospitals. A neurosurgery residency program was established in 1954. As the clinical practice expanded, neurosurgery was upgraded from a section to a division and then to a department. It has been led by four chiefs/chairs over the past 60 years—Dr. George Ehni (1959–1979), Dr. Robert Grossman (1980–2004), Dr. Raymond Sawaya (2005–2014), and Dr. Daniel Yoshor (2015–2020). Since the 1950s, the department has drawn strength from its robust residency program, its research base in the medical school, and its five major hospital affiliates, which have largely remained unchanged (with the exception of Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center replacing Methodist in 2004). The recent expansion of the residency program to 25 accredited positions and the growing strength of relationships with the “Baylor five” hospitals affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine portend a bright future.

The history of neurosurgery in Memphis: the Semmes-Murphey Clinic and the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dee J. Canale ◽  
Clarence. B. Watridge ◽  
Tyler S. Fuehrer ◽  
Jon H. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Science Center ◽  
Neurological Surgery ◽  
The University

Neurological surgery was defined as a separate surgical specialty by Harvey Cushing and a few other surgeons, most of whom were trained and influenced by Cushing. One of these, Raphael Eustace Semmes, became the first neurosurgeon in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1912. After World War II, Semmes and his first associate, Francis Murphey, incorporated the Semmes-Murphey Clinic, which has been primarily responsible for the growth of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, as well as the development of select neurosurgical subspecialties in Memphis area hospitals.

ON THE PERIPHERY OF KERMA - THE HANDESSI HORIZON IN WADI HARIQ, NORTHWESTERN SUDAN

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike Jesse ◽  
Stefan Kröpelin ◽  
Mathias Lange ◽  
Nadja Pöllath ◽  
Hubert Berke
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Wavy Line ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Climatic History ◽  
Small Livestock ◽  
The University

Wadi Hariq is a complex valley system in the Northwest Sudan about 400 km west of the Nile. Stratigraphic investigations provide new data on the environmental and climatic history of the present-day hyperarid centre of the southeastern Sahara. Archaeological work there only started at the end of the 1990s, with a survey and excavations carried out as part of the multidisciplinary research project ACACIA of the University of Cologne. To date, 104 sites are known in the Wadi Hariq. Based on the pottery found at these sites, most can be attributed to the Handessi Horizon, the former Geometric Pottery Horizon, of the eastern Sahara. Geometric patterns, and also mat impressions, are characteristic of the Handessi Horizon (ca 2200 . 1100 BC). The subsistence of these prehistoric inhabitants was based on the herding of cattle and small livestock. Transhumance cycles included areas further north (Laqiya region) and south (Wadi Howar), and perhaps even the Nile Valley has to be considered. Similar decorative patterns have been found in all these areas. Evidence of an even earlier human presence in the Wadi Hariq during the Holocene is provided by several sherds decorated with Dotted Wavy Line and Laqiya-type patterns as well as some fragments of rippled-ware pottery.

scholarly journals Embedded Librarians to Support Data Management Needs of a Multidisciplinary Research Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianjin Zhang ◽  
Brian Westra
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Program Director ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Research Administrators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Funding Opportunity

<p>This presentation describes the establishment of a partnership between the Libraries and a multidisciplinary research program, and some of the products and outcomes from immersive and embedded roles within that program. Several factors contributed to the development of this partnership: outreach efforts by the Engineering Library and the Data Services Librarian to faculty, staff, students, and research administrators; a research program director who has a history of engagement with the Libraries; and the funder’s data management and sharing mandates in the funding opportunity announcement for the research program.</p>

The History of Neurosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Neurosurgery ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Foreman ◽  
James M. Markert ◽  
Arnold G. Diethelm ◽  
Mark N. Hadley
Keyword(s):  
University Of Alabama ◽  
History Of Neurosurgery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University
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