Peter D. Williamson, MD (1936-2008)
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Peter D. Williamson died in his home in Lyme, New Hampshire on June 4th, 2008 after a courageous year-long battle with lung cancer. With his passing the neurology community lost a compassionate advocate, clinician, researcher and fundraiser in the field of epilepsy and epilepsy surgery. He is survived by his wife Susan, their four children, and six grandchildren. Peter D. Williamson was born in Hinsdale, Illinois and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1958. He attended the University of Southern California Medical School, and this was followed by two years of internal medicine at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, and a neurology residency at Yale. After three years of military service at Walter Reed, Washington, DC, he returned to Yale and started his groundbreaking work in presurgical evaluation of patients with refractory epilepsy and the syndromic description of seizures. Together with Richard Mattson and Susan and Dennis Spencer he established one of the leading epilepsy surgery programs in the nation and a very successful epilepsy fellowship programme. After 19 years at Yale he returned to Dartmouth as director of the epilepsy program. Under his leadership, a programme already well-
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Seizure
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008