1. History of Neurology Early New York Neurology – Part 2
The New York Neurologic Institute, Houston Merritt & Lewis Rowland
Richard J. Barohn, MD
Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology
The University of Kansas Medical Center

2. The Neurological Institution of New York Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons Founded 1909
Chairmen of Neurology:
Joseph Collins
Frederick Tilney
Walter W. Palmer
Tracy J. Putnam
Edwin Zabriskie
H. Houston Merritt
G. Milton Shy
Richard L. Masland
Lewis P. Rowland
Timothy A. Pedley
Richard Mayeux 2011-present
New York celebrated its 100th Anniversary in
The first Neurological Institute of New York at 149 East 67th Street. View looking north across 67th Street

3. H. Houston Merritt, MD 1902-1979 Born in Washington, North Carolina
UNC/Vanderbilt/MD at John Hopkins
Boston City Hospital, Neurology
Neuropathy in Germany
Harvard Faculty 13 years
Professor & chair of Neurology at Columbia Univ. & Director Neuropsychiatry Montefiore Hospital
Professor & Director, Dept. Neurology at Columbia
Dean, College of Physicians & Surgeons
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology
Neurological Institute became a major center for neurological training and research under Dr. Merritt
Taught many future leaders in Neurology including Dewey Ziegler, Robert Fishman, and Lewis Rowland

4. H. Houston Merritt, MD
Discovered phenytoin (Dilantin) anticonvulsant properties
With Tracy Putnam at BCH
Primarily phenobarbital
Experimental methods were basis to other anti- seizure drugs
CSF, neurosyphilis, headache, stroke, MS, genetic disease
1938
1938

5. H. Houston Merritt, MD Other Contributions/Books
215 papers, 15 books
A Textbook of Neurology
5 editions, sole author
Still in print-12 edition- Rowland and Pedley
The Cerebrospinal Fluid (1937) with Fremont Smith
Neurosyphilis (1946) with RD Adams & HC Solomon

6. Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology Ed by Lewis P
Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology Ed by Lewis P. Rowland “My” 2nd line neurology textbook as a resident
1st ed. 1955
8th ed. 1989
2nd ed. 1959
9th ed. 1994
3rd ed. 1963
10th ed. 2000
4th ed. 1967
11th ed. 2005
5th ed. 1973
12th ed. 2009
6th ed. 1979
13th ed. 2015
7th ed. 1984
2nd ed. 1959
7th ed. 1984
9th ed. 1994
10th ed. 2000
11th ed. 2005
12th ed. 2009
13th ed. 2015

7. H. Houston Merritt, MD 1902-1979 Died from stroke and NPH
Even though in his career he was skeptical about NPH
His students in NY were treating him - disagreed over course of action
Transferred to MGH
Succumbed to after-effects of a neurosurgical operation at the age of 79

8. Who is This?
Dewey Ziegler, MD
H. Houston Merritt, MD

9. Neuro Family Tree: Descendants of Merritt
H. Houston Merritt
R. Fishman (UCSF)
D. Ziegler
(KU)
L. Rowland (Columbia, NY)

10. Lewis P. Rowland, MD 1926-2017 YEAR ACHIEVEMENT 1942 – 1948
B.S. & M.D. from Yale University
Graduated cum laude & elected to Alpha Omega Alpha
1948 – 1950
Research Assistant; Columbia University
Intern in Medicine; Yale University
1950 – 1953
Residency training under H. Houston Merritt, MD
Dewey Ziegler was his Chief Resident; Robert Fishman was also a resident
Columbia University, New York
1953 – 1954
Fellowship at NIH; Shy was Chief NINDB
Fired due to relationship w/ American Association of Interns & Med Students
1954 – 1957
Assistant Neurologist, Adjunct Attending Neurologist
Montefiore Hospital, New York
Instructor then Associate in Neurology
1957 – 1961
Fellow in Biochemistry
College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University
1957 – 1967
Assistant, Associate, then Professor of Neurology Columbia University
Assistant, Associate, then Professor, of Neurology Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
1967 – 1973
Professor & Chairman, Department of Neurology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Lewis P. Rowland, MD

11. Lewis P. Rowland, MD 1946-2017 YEAR ACHIEVEMENT 1973 – 1998
Chairman of Neurology & Director of the Neurology Service
Presbyterian Hospital, New York & Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Director
The Neurological Institution of New York
1974 – 1998
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Co-Director of the H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy & Related Diseases
1989 – 1999
Founder & Co-Director of the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig MDA/ALS Center
1977 – 1987
Editor-in Chief of Neurology
1979 – 2015
Editor, Merritt’s Neurology Textbook (8 editions; 6th – 13th)
1980 – 1981
President, American Neurological Association
1989 – 1991
President, American Academy of Neurology;
Chairman of the Academy’s Education and Research Foundation
2000 – 2009
Chief Editor, Neurology Today
Lewis P. Rowland, MD

12. Fishman, Rowland & Wives
Ziegler Celebration
Fishman, Rowland & Wives

13. Ziegler Celebration - 2002 Lewis “Bud” Rowland, Dewey Ziegler & Robert Fishman

14. 10 Years of Ziegler Professorship Lectures
2007 – Lewis P. Rowland, MD
2008 – Louis R. Caplan, MD
2009 – Jerry R. Mendell, MD
2010 – Martin A. Samuels, MD
2011 – Harold P. Adams, MD
2012 – John C. Morris, MD
2013 – Eelco F. Wijdicks, MD, PhD
2014 – Thomas G. Brott, MD
2015 – Stephen Hauser, MD
2016 – James C. Grotta, MD
2017 – Frank Gilliam, MD

15. First Year of Ziegler Professorship – June 2007 Barbara Atkinson, Lewis “Bud” Rowland, Rick Barohn, Dewey Ziegler, Gary Gronseth & Dale Seuferling

16. Bud & Esther Rowland