The inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Lecture -- named in honor of the professor emeritus who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of neurology -- will be held at the School of Medicine on Monday, May 15.
The Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Fund for Research and Education in Neurology recently was launched at the School of Medicine by a gift from the Glaser family. The fund will remain at Yale in perpetuity and will provide support for students, fellows and junior faculty who wish to embark upon careers combining research and clinical skills. The fund also supports a series of annual lectures honoring Glaser.
"It is an honor for our department to house this fund named for Gilbert Glaser, who helped to launch neurology as a medical specialty and added so much to our understanding of epilepsy and of methods such as electroencephalography," says Dr. Stephen Waxman, chair of the Department of Neurology. "This gift will help us to perpetuate Dr. Glaser's heritage of excellence in research, clinical work and the training of the next generations of neurologists."
The speaker at the inaugural lecture will be Dr. Timothy A. Pedley, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and neurologist-in-chief at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center. His talk, titled "Development of Epilepsy: The Silent Period Revisited," will be held at 4 p.m. in the Donald Cohen Auditorium at the Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Rd. The public is invited.
Glaser came to Yale in 1952 as assistant professor and head of the section of neurology. He became professor of neurology in 1963 and was part of a vanguard that established neurology as a distinct medical specialty, separate from internal medicine. Under his leadership at Yale, the Department of Neurology was established in 1971, and he served as chair until 1986.
Glaser's work in neurology and neuroscience as both an investigator and a teacher advanced both disciplines nationally and internationally. In the area of epilepsy, his research expanded treatment through surgical and non-surgical techniques. His program was one of the first to identify the specific location of epileptic discharge and to remove it surgically. He was a leader in understanding how anticonvulsant drugs work and which seizures are best treated by the drugs that were available. His students were among the first to describe the clinical characteristics of seizures of the frontal, parietal and occipital lobes. Renowned for such clinical excellence and pioneering research, Yale's epilepsy program was one of the nation's first and has evolved into one of the most active and advanced in the world.
Prior to coming to Yale, Glaser served as director of the electroencephalography laboratory at Brooke Army Medical Center and was an assistant attending and chief of the neurology clinic at the Neurology Institute in New York. He was a graduate of Columbia College and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. His residency in neurology was with Houston Merritt, who developed the drug dilantin, at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University. Glaser's many awards include the W.G. Lennox Award of the American Epilepsy Society in 1963. He served as president of the American Academy of Neurology 1973-1975 and as president of the American Epilepsy Society in 1963. He was editor of the journal Epilepsia 1958-1976, and served on the editorial boards of many journals, including the Journal of Neurological Sciences, Archives of Neurology and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases.
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