Leon Eisenberg was an American child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems".
18 Facts About Leon Eisenberg
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Leon Eisenberg served as Chairperson of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Child and adolescent psychiatry and Harvard Medical School until his retirement in 1988.
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Leon Eisenberg received both his BA and MD degrees from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Leon Eisenberg taught previously at both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University.
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Leon Eisenberg was chief of psychiatry at both Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston during formative periods in psychiatry for each institution.
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Leon Eisenberg, completed the first outcome study of autistic children in adolescence, and recognized patterns of language use as the best predictor of prognosis.
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Leon Eisenberg was principal investigator on the first grant from the Psychopharmacology Branch of NIMH for RCTs in child psychopharmacology.
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Leon Eisenberg completed the first RCTs of psychiatric consultation to social agencies and the utility of brief psychotherapy in anxiety disorders.
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Leon Eisenberg published a forceful critique of Konrad Lorenz's instinct theory and established the usefulness of distinguishing "disease" from "illness".
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Leon Eisenberg has highlighted the environmental context as a determinant of the phenotype emerging from a given genotype, and from the late 1990s through 2006, he had been involved with developing conferences and resources for medical educators in various specialties that would help them incorporate, into courses with their current and future students, the tidal wave of new information in genomics yet to puzzle future clinicians.
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For many decades, Leon Eisenberg had criticized psychoanalysis from a number of platforms.
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Leon Eisenberg was proudest of the Diversity Lifetime Achievement Award he received in 2001 for his role in inaugurating affirmative action at HMS in 1968 and sustaining it as chairman of the Admissions Committee from 1969 to 1974.
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Leon Eisenberg died of prostate cancer at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 15,2009.
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Leon Eisenberg served on seemingly countless academic and other committees at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Children's Hospital Boston.
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Leon Eisenberg was typically among the first thought and invited to such committees because of his breadth.
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Leon Eisenberg will be remembered most for his writings in these areas, though his encyclopedic comprehension reached much more broadly:.
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Leon Eisenberg suggested that a switch from 'mind' to 'body' has taken place in psychiatry as a discipline, which led to overuse of medication.
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Leon Eisenberg argued that, while medical scientists were worrying about the tedious science at the base of medical practice and healthcare decisions for the general public, "money" and monied interests had been making de facto decisions for the populace about how things that affected them deeply were going to be done.