A Tale of Two Cities: Evolution of Academic Physiatry in Boston and Baltimore: Part 1: The Boston Marathon

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Tale of Two Cities

T2 - Evolution of Academic Physiatry in Boston and Baltimore: Part 1: The Boston Marathon

AU - Wainapel, Stanley F.

AU - Siebens, Hilary C.

N1 - Funding Information: Supported by a Research and Training grant from the Rehabilitation Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Education, the Tufts program grew significantly under Granger’s leadership. Several areas of faculty expertise included assistive technology, computerized speech recognition, pediatric rehabilitation, and traumatic brain injury. Of special importance was Granger’s early pioneering work on functional assessment while at T/NEMC [8] . At that time, the specialty was being criticized that it was because of natural history, not rehabilitation, that patients got better. Therefore, Granger's leadership in developing valid functional outcome measures was essential for the more nuanced research required to tease out rehabilitation's added benefit to patients’ recovery trajectories and outcomes. Another pioneering area in the Department was the Independent Living model, described herein [7] . Funding Information: In 1961, Murray M. Freed, MD ( Figure 2 ), a graduate of the New York University residency program established by internist and physiatrist Howard Rusk, MD, was recruited to start a PM&R department at BU [3] . The spinal cord injury unit moved from Boston City Hospital to the BU Hospital and, with strong financial support from the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, grew to 25 beds and became the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center under Freed’s leadership. An above-knee amputee and survivor of the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, Freed led the BU PM&R department from 1965 until 1992 (Paul J. Corcoran, MD, personal communication, 2017). He was dedicated to improving the lives of other people with disabilities, especially the many hundreds of individuals with paraplegia and quadriplegia treated by him during his many years in Boston. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2018/6

Y1 - 2018/6

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U2 - 10.1016/j.pmrj.2018.01.005

DO - 10.1016/j.pmrj.2018.01.005

M3 - Article

C2 - 29408564

AN - SCOPUS:85045543637

VL - 10

SP - 646

EP - 654

JO - PM and R

JF - PM and R

SN - 1934-1482

IS - 6

ER -