A clinical staging system for adult osteomyelitis.

Jon Terry Mader (Fig 1) was born on March 21, 1944 in Madison, WI. He earned his BA and MD degrees at Wabash College at Indiana University in 1966 and 1970, respectively. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX and made his career there in the Division of Infectious Disease in the Department of Internal Medicine. At the time of his death on October 25, 2002, he had risen to the positions of Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. During his life, he published more than 145 peerreviewed papers on osteomyelitis, antibiotic therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, joint infections, the foot in patients with diabetes, and the use of the Ilizarov technique for the treatment of musculoskeletal infections. He also was the principle investigator in numerous funded research projects and the coauthor of Musculo-Skeletal Infection. He died when the book was in its final stages of production.