Louis R. Caplan, Aishwarya Aggarwal

Gebundenes Buch

Stories of Stroke

Key Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas

Beschreibung

Behind every person, every idea, every event, every advance there is a story. This book collects the stories of the history of stroke, through the accounts of international leaders in the area who were present to see many of these advances first-hand.

Autor

Louis R. Caplan MD attended Williams College where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude in 1958. He graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1962 summa cum laude, the class valedictorian. After an intern and junior resident in Medicine at the Boston City Hospital he served in the US Army. His Neurology residency was on the Harvard Neurological Unit at the Boston City Hospital under Dr. Denny-Brown. He was a Stroke Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital with Dr. C. Miller Fisher, In July 1970-1978, he was a staff Neurologist at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston where he founded the Harvard Cooperative Stroke Registry. 1978-1984 he was Neurologist-in-chief at the Michael Reese Hospital and Professor of Neurology at the University of Chicago. From 1984 to 1998 he was Neurologist-in-chief at the New England Medical Center and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University. In 1998, he returned to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center as Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or editor of 51 books, mostly on aspects of stroke and over 750 articles and chapters in medical journals and books. He has been the Chairman of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and chair of the Boston and Chicago Neurological Societies. He has been on the editorial board of 30 different medical journals. He has delivered 52 named lectureships and has trained 81 stroke fellows and hundreds of Neurology residents.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 670
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 172mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1504g
• ISBN-13: 9781316516676
• ISBN-10: 1316516679
• Artikelnr.: 65591325