Ted F. Leigh, MD

In memoriam: Stephen F. Lowry, MD, MBA.

J. M. Charcot, MD, with Additional Lectures by A. Loomis, MD. Translated by Leigh H. Hunt, MD. New York: William Wood Company, 1881. 280 pp

J. M. Charcot, MD, world-renowned psychiatrist and neurologist, delivered a series of lectures on The Diseases of Old Age in the Salpetriere in 1867. These were translated by Leigh H. Hunt, MD, and published in New York in 1881. Added to the Charcot material were a few lectures written by Alfred Loomis, MD, whopresented these to his classes in Bellevue Hospital in New York. Specifically, the fi...

Donald F. Steiner MD, 1930-2014: discoverer of proinsulin.

Donald F. Steiner, the A. N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago, died at his home on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. He was 84 years old and had been a member of the faculty since 1960. Don was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973. He revolutionized our understanding of t...

Leigh Stewart

When I tell people that I am a mathematics major and a studio art minor, overwhelmingly the response I get is one of surprise that I have chosen such a strange combination of disciplines. “They’re so different from each other!” people exclaim. Mathematics is often considered a “left-brained” discipline, logical and linear in its structure, and art a “rightbrained” activity, stirring one’s intui...

Special Feature: Presentation of the 2006 Morris F. Collen Award to Edward H. (Ted) Shortliffe

The American College of Medical Informatics is an honorary society established to recognize those who have made sustained contributions to the field. Its highest award, for lifetime achievement and contributions to the discipline now known more inclusively as biomedical informatics, is the Morris F. Collen Award. Dr. Collen’s own efforts as a pioneer in the field stand as the embodiment of crea...