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Show Martin Lubow, MD (1931 - 2015) Marty was born in New York in the same hospital where his wife was born 6 months later! They didn't meet until they were young adults. He studied at the Bronx Science High School, then transferred to California to be with his brother (who was in the service), finishing high school at Hamilton High School, Los Angeles. After grad-uating from UCLA, he went to medical school at the Uni-versity of California at San Francisco (located at Berkeley at that time). He became an ophthalmology resident at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Marty always felt honored to be in the first class of neuro-ophthalmology fellows in San Francisco, taught by Dr. William F. Hoyt. There were only three neuro-ophthalmologists in the USA: Boston's David Cogan, Balti-more's Frank Walsh, and San Francisco's William Hoyt. Marty served as a neuro-ophthalmologist at Letterman Med-ical Center (Army). As an Army physician, he served as recently as 2001 in Fort Belvoir following 9/11. The first Hoyt neuro-ophthalmology fellows were "dis-persed" throughout the USA to teach this new sub-specialty. Marty was recruited to the Ohio State University (OSU) by Dr. George Paulson, the OSU Neurology Professor and Chair who trained at Duke and recognized the value of having a neu-ro- ophthalmologist at a "quality" medical school (Fig. 1). Marty and his wife Diane had a son, Alan, and daughter, Lauren. Diane was a great supporter of the arts and the Columbus Art Museum, where she was a docent. She predeceased Marty. Both Alan and Lauren started their college careers at Miami of Ohio, then on went to graduate school. Alan is now a physician in Denver and Lauren an attorney at Ohio State. In his young career in the 1970s, Marty wrote about eye movements, coined the term WEBINO (wall-eyed bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia), popularized the use of acetazol-amide and weight loss for pseudotumor cerebri in an article co-authored with Lora Kuhr, MD, and described pseudopa-pilledema in juvenile diabetics as "diabetic papillopathy" in a paper with OSU ocular pathologist Torrence (Todd) Makley, MD. For over 30 years, Dr. Lubow took care of patients at OSU and teaching medical students and residents. After retiring from clinical practice, Marty "re-booted": he loved doing research with ophthalmologists, rheumatologists, pathologists, vascular biologists, and bio-medical engineers. He published 13 articles from 2007 through 2015. Neuro-vascular research was his major passion. He studied Susac syndrome of microangiopathy and endotheliopathy with John Susac, MD and Robert Rennebohm, MD (Rheumatology, Cleveland Clinic), Cynthia Magro, MD (Dermatopathology, New York Weill Cornell), W. James Waldman, Ph.D. and Debbie Knight, M.S. (OSU Pathology). He studied retinal angiography patterns in various optic neuropathies and retinal conditions with OSU's neuro-ophthalmologists Sue Benes and Steven Katz, retinologists Colleen Cebulla, Fred Davi-dorf, Mitch Opremcak, Matthew Ohr, and Alan Letson. In the last two years, he studied other vasculitides, capillary leak syndromes involving the eye and brain, giant cell arteritis and granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener) with Brian Younge at Mayo Clinic, Cornelia Weyand at Stanford and her vasculitis research team including pathologist Gene Berry, and OSU glaucoma specialist Paul Weber. Marty explored anatomy/surgical procedure development projects in the cadaver lab, proposing an orbital roof fenestration for high cerebrospinal fluid pressures affecting vision. His arachnoid villus anatomic research included brain studies with the OSU pathologists, and arachnoid cell cultures pump and drainage function studies with bio-engineer Deb Gryzbowski and her bio-engineering team at OSU (Fig 2). Marty was a real character, an eccentric bicyclist, a gardener, an alternative energy advocate, a tough critic in written and verbal communication, an often dogmatic teacher. In 1975, he told his colleague Fred Davidorf that the invention of the CAT scan "was going to be the end of FIG. 1. Martin Lubow, MD. e26 Benes: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2015; 35: e26-e27 In Memoriam Copyright © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. neuro-ophthalmology" as the images would replace the ele-gance of history-taking and a classical detailed neuro-ophthalmology exam. He would quip after a resident's pre-sentation that "no one is completely worthless; they can always serve as a bad example", while still helping that resident get established in a strong career after all. Many of us have classic "Marty stories". Marty Lubow passed away, surrounded by his family and colleagues, on February 12, 2015. He is survived by his two children and 3 grandsons. He will be greatly missed. Selected Articles published by Dr Lubow: Anderson WD, Lubow M. Astrocytoma of the corpus callosum presenting with acute comitant esotropia. Am J Ophthalmol 1970;69:594-598. Cited as coining the term WEBINO (wall-eyed bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia) in Hoyt and Daroff's "The Control of Eye Movements", 1971. Lubow M, Makley T. Pseudopapilledema of juvenile diabetes mellitus. Arch Ophthalmol 1971;85:417-422. Grunnett ML, Lubow M. Ascending polyneuritis and ophthalmoplegia. Am J Ophthalmol 1972;74:1155-1160. Lubow M, Kuhr L. Pseudotumor cerebri: comments on practical management. In: Glaser JS, Smith JL, editors. Neuro-ophthalmology, Vol IX. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 199-206. Lubow M. Pupils in neurosyphilis. Comment on syphilitic meningomyelitis. Neurology 1992;42:266. Susac JO, Egan RA, Rennebohm RM, Lubow M. 1975-2005 microangiopathy/autoimmune endotheliop-athy. J Neurol Sci 2007;257:270-272. Rennebohm RM, Lubow M, Rusin J, Martin L, Gryzbowski DM, Susac JO. Aggressive immunosuppression treatment of Susac's syndrome in an adolescent: using treat-ment of dermatomyositis as a model. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2008; Jan 29:6:3. Kapoor KG, Katz SE, Gryzbowski DM, Lubow M. Cerebrospinal fluid outflow: An evolving perspective. Brain Res Bull. 2008;77:327-334. Gryzbowski DM, Long AC, Allred CW, Holman DW, Donahue JE, Glimcher SA, Johanson C, Stopa E, Lubow M. Human arachnoid membrane: active transport of amyloid-beta. Cerebrospinal Fluid Res 2009;6:S27. 2009: Holman DW, Lubow M, Gryzbowski. Retinaol effects on CSF outflow through cultured human arachnoid granulation cells: implications for PTC, Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 6 (1), S35-1, 2009. Magro CM, Pie JC, Lubow M, Susan JO. Susac Syndrome: An organ-specific autoimmune endotheliopathy syndrome associated with anti-endothelial cell antibodies. Am J Clin Pathol 2011;135:903-912. McLeod DS, Ying HS, McLeod CA, Grebe R, Lubow M, Susac JO, Lutty GA. Retinal and optic nerve head pathology in Susac's Syndrome. Ophthalmology 2011;118:548-552. Salma A, Lubow M, Scheffer A, Ammirati M. Endo-scopic orbital roof fenestration as an alternative treatment option for idiopathic intracranial hypertension: a cadaveric anatomical study. J Neuroophthalmol 2011;31:25-28. Cebulla CM, Zelinka CP, Scott MA, Lubow M, Bingham A, Rasiah S, Mahmoud AM, Fisher AJ. A chick model of retinal detachment: cone rich and novel. PLos One 2012;e44257. Clark SA, Lubow M, Ray-Chaudhury A, Davidorf FH, Abdel-Rahman MH, Cebulla CM. Optic disc edema from remote uveal melanoma. JAMA Ophthalmol 2013;115-117. Cebulla CM, Minning C, Pratt C, Lubow M. Charles Bonnet syndrome and Terson's syndrome from subarach-noid hemorrhage: good news from bad news. Graefes Arch Clin Ophthalmol 2013;1021-1022. 2013: Buzzacco DM, Lubow M, Davidorf FH, Cebulla CM. Atypical cat scratch disease with vitritis, serous macular detachment, neuroretinitis and retrobulbar optic neuritis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2013;251:1001-1002. Susan Carleton Benes, MD The Eye Center of Columbus, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio FIG. 2. Martin Lubow and the arachnoid villus research team. Benes: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2015; 35: e26-e27 e27 In Memoriam Copyright © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. |
