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Show Journal of Clillical Ncuro- ophthalmology 12141: 275- 279. 1992. Neuro- ophthalmology Conferences History of Neuro- ophthalmology Grand Rounds at the Washington Hospital Center 101992 Raven Press, Ltd., New York The Grand Rounds in Neuro- Ophthalmology were established in 1955 by Drs. Melvin G. Alper and Hugo V. Rizzoli at the Episcopal Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital in Washington, D. C The initial meetings were held with only the ophthalmology and neurosurgery resident staff and Dr. Alper and Dr. RizzoIi. Dr. Frank Walsh was one of the first outside lecturers to be invited to speak. Some of the staff members of " the Episcopal" attended, in addition to the residents, for the first time when Dr. Walsh spoke in 1957. Dr. J. Lawton Smith was invited to speak when he was a resident at the Wilmer Eye Institute, at the suggestion of Dr. Walsh. As I remember it, his topic was Raeder's paratrigeminal neuralgia and Horner's syndrome. In 1958, the Episcopal Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital moved to the newly completed Washington Hospital Center. The Washington Hospital Center was the merger of three hospitals in Washington, D. C: the Emergency Hospital, Garfield Hospital, and Episcopal Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. Immediately thereafter, the Grand Rounds were continued in a different format. Meetings were held in the eye clinic on Saturday morning with patient presentations in the first hour, followed by a formal lecture by an invited guest speaker. The case presentations were expanded to an hour and a half. As the Grand Rounds became better known, physicians from the entire area began to attend. Attendance was not only encouraged by these physicians, but each attendee was asked to present some of his interesting patients. Because of large attendance, the rounds were shifted to the auditoriUm/ amphitheater in the Nursing School. The Grand Rounds have continued in this for- 275 mat since their inception. Many of the outstanding neuro- ophthalmologists throughout the country have lectured and offered their opinion on some of the interesting patients who have been presented to them. The list includes Doctors Phil A. Aitken, Myles M. Behrens, Thomas M. Bosley, Ronald Burde, Charles Citrin, David G. Cogan, James J. Corbett, Noble J. David, David O. Davis, John W. Gittinger, Thomas Hedges, Jonathan Horton, Norman Horwitz, John A. Jane, John Kennerdell, Lanning B. Kline, David Knox, Mark J. Kupersmith, Alan Laties, Robert L. Lesser, Donlin M. Long, Neil Miller, Marshall Parks, Michael X. Repka, Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., Joseph F. Rizzo, Donald B. Sanders, Peter Savino, Laligam N. Sekhar, John B. Selhorst, Robert C Sergott, Michael L. Slavin, J. Lawton Smith, Robert H. Spector, Ladislau Steiner, Patrick J. Sweeney, James Toole, Shirley Wray, Brian R. Younge, David S. Zee, and Lorenz Zimmerman. During the intervening years, Dr. Frank Walsh, who was the initial inspiration for the continuation of the series, gave a lecture each year in May. When Dr. David Cogan retired from the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, and became a member of the staff at the National Institutes of Health, he began to attend the Saturday morning neuroophthalmology Grand Rounds, and rarely missed a meeting. The Grand Rounds continues in its original format, and has been a source for the exchange of much information and education of not only residents but of the ophthalmologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists in the area. Melvin G. Alper, M. D. |
