Michael Alexander McDonald

Dr. Michael Alexander receives the first Molnar, Pediatric PM&R Lifetime Achievement Award.

JPRM is pleased to recognize Dr. Michael Alexander as the inaugural winner of the Gabriella Molnar, MD Pediatric Lifetime Award from the Foundation of PM&R. Dr. Michael Alexander has dedicated his entire career to the pursuit improving this subspecialty of Pediatric PM&R. Dr. Alexander served as the Chief of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE...

Reply to McDonald.

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Dr Mc-Donald for his interest in our work and concur that the role of particular ribo-types in the clinical outcome of Clostrid-ium difficile infection (CDI) is complex [1]. Our study identified several factors that predicted severe CDI in unadjusted analysis, including ribotype 027/078 (Table 2 in our article) [2]. We agree that including intermediate white blood cell (W...

MICHAEL COLE Alexander Luria , Cultural Psychology , and the Resolution of the Crisis in Psychology

It is a great personal pleasure for me to address this conference, honoring the life and work of Alexander Romanovich Luria. I am not a Russian and I am acutely aware that I am speaking to you, so to speak, from afar, about a person you know very differently than I do. So, to begin with, I want to give a brief account of how I first encountered Alexander Romanovich and his work. I will then pro...

McDONALD INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS

John Corbett McDonald.

In the study of work related diseases, John Corbett McDonald was a pioneering investigator, whose research and techniques in many ways defined occupational epidemiology. His best known role from the mid-1960s onwards—analysing the effects on health of different forms of asbestos—yielded controversy in a highly contentious field. An inspiration to epidemiologists worldwide, McDonald produced res...