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My wikipedia article is Frank B Walsh. If you go to their article, you will notice that there is little information about him. I hope to expand more information on his personal life and his work life. Within theses categories, I'd like to discuss what schools he went to and how he got to be a neuro -ophthalmologist. I'd like to also look into his roles in contributing to make Johns Hopkins like it is. In getting to his work life, I would like investigate his procedures and approaches, along with his successes and failures. -PB

Possible Improvements - William He

There is minimal information on Frank B. Walsh's personal life, so more information about his family and upbringing could be added to give background on his professional accomplishments. Also, the article does not state how Walsh died. Additionally, there is only reference to one of his discoveries. Walsh has published a multitude of papers that are all accessible on PubMed, so it'll be possible to add a lot more information on his specific discoveries. Additionally, information on the Frank B. Walsh society needs to be included, as it is one of the biggest medical associations for neuro-opthalmology. Frank B. Walsh was one of the founding fathers of neuro-opthalmology, so more information on the early years of neuro-opthalmology could also be added later on in the article.

Possible Improvements - PB

After reading this, there are a few changes I would like to make, as well as many add-ons. First of all, I think it will do well to include at least one picture of Mr. Walsh (a portrait), and then if possible, a picture of him preforming his surgeries, or something related to his specialty. One minor thing that I noticed is that the first quote seems kind of out of context. I think it would do good to introduce it better, and to also add in where it came from in the article as well as in the sources part at the bottom. Much of Walsh's history goes from the 1950s to the 2000s, but I believe that this is a big gap and I would like to provide more history to fix this gap. I think one thing that can be added to fill these gaps are to describe a few of surgeries. What were his approaches, and how did he discover these approaches? Did he have any assistants working with him. I think it would also be important to define the meaning of professor at Hopkins at his time, because it is much different today and anybody reading this article may not know that. In each of the books that is listed, I think it would be useful to go into more detail with what was in those books (connecting back to the specific procedures he did). It will also be useful to mention the types of articles he wrote, and what was in each of them. It might also be able to quote from some of the articles, or have pictures (if possible) to give more specific examples. In general, I think that the article right now does a good job of covering the basic "major topics," but Will and I will be able to go under each major topic and explain in detail the importance. I also agree with will that we need to add more about his personal life, such as how he died.

History of the Frank B. Walsh Society

- First meeting in 1969

- Begun by Frank Walsh and Richard Lindenberg, started collaboration in 1958

- Joel Sacks joined in 1966

- Lindenberg brought great neuropathology experience

- Bill Hoyt, who had a four year fellowship under Frank Walsh, began working on the third edition of Walsh's textbook Clinical Neuro-opthalmology in 1957

- First three meetings (Neuro-Opthalmic Pathology Symposium)

○ Included case presentations, clinical conferences, discussion with local and visiting experts, 

○ First meeting was small but was first time neuro-opthalmologists from North America got a time to meet as a group

- At the start neuropathologists were most dominant, and over time neuroradiology also started blossoming as a subspecialty.

- After Frank B Walsh's death in 1978, group renamed itself the Frank B. Walsh Neuro-Opthalmology Society

- No formal organization, constitution, bylaws, dues, etc. for the first 23 years

- In 1988, the society had its first draft of a constitution and bylaws

- In December 1, 1990, the society was formally recognized as a not-for-profit entity by Maryland

- First board of directors in 1990

- Resulted in Neuro-Opthalmology in North America becoming very politicized, and some criticized the society for turning a purely academic environment to one diluted by political-economic issues

- In 1992, the Walsh Society became a subgroup of the North American Neuro-Opthalmology Society

- Walsh Society's main function was exchange of information (introduction of practitioners to new diseases through case studies, new facts and ideas)

○ Meetings were the first time doctors were introduced to more obscure diseases like Aicardi's syndrome and blue nevus syndrome

○ In the words of Jack Selhorst, "at the Walsh Society we saw and heard the cutting edge of neuro-opthalmology, one or two years before it made the literature" 

http://www.ascrs.org/honorees/frank-b-walsh-md

- Spent nine years in general practice in Canada before being a resident in opthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute

- Directed Saturday morning conferences, which were opportunities for neurologists, neurosurgeons, internal medicine practitioners, and opthalmologists to interact and discuss

- Most known for Clinical Neuro-Opthalmology, which is a textbook first issued in 1947 and contains 50 years of Walsh's analysis, observations, and cataloguing of nervous system diseases related to the eye

http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/papers/walsh_fb.html

- Everything from this source is already in the article

https://professorships.jhu.edu/professorship/frank-b-walsh-professorship-neuro-ophthalmology/

- Called one of the most distinguished opthalmologists of the 20th century

- Created specialty of neuro-opthalmology

○ Diagnosis and care of patients who have nervous system diseases that affect the eye or vision

○ In 1960s, only 4 neuro-opthalmologists in the US

○ Today, there are many more

Glaser, Joel S. Neuro-ophthalmology : In Memory of Dr. Frank B. Walsh. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1980.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Walsh%20FB%5BAuthor%5D

• I think we should pick some of his more important articles and then create sections of them in the wikipedia page. (I can do over spring break!!)

http://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/30/archives/dr-frank-walsh-noted-for-ophthalmic-work.html?_r=0

• died of cancer at 83, actually died at Johns Hopkins
• eye="window of the body"; the idea is that you can diagnose other illnesses just by looking at the eye
• book: "Clinical Neuro-Ophthlmology"
• published a report on the side effects of birth control pills and links to vision; saw that these pills may harm vision, cause strokes, or involve blood clotting
• Resident at Wilmer Institute in 1930, member of full-time staff 1945
• entered private practice

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6608710 (access through JHU)

• active in WWI, injured and sent home
• MD degree from University of Manitoba
• nine years in general practice, then specializes in ophthalmology
• Actually heard about Wilmer Institute and asked Dr. Wilmer for a position, which he was granted because he was so impressive
• qualities of: "honesty, fairness, propriety, equanimity"
• First salary was $25 a month
• Chief resident during fourth year
• told his house officers to wear rubber gloves during operation
• New procedure: use needles for retinal detachment; cure rate=50%
• Organized Wilmer Residents Association
• honorary degrees from: University of Western Australia, University of Manitoba, Queen's University, Johns Hopkins
• Honorary fellow of royal college of physicians and surgeons
• Awards: prize of ophthalmology, howe meal, howe medal, first jules stein award, Proctor Award, Karl-Leigbrecht Prize, Proctor Medal Award
• Amusing case: helped a man be able to pee; now he carries a catheter around
• Sign of mad: when he became angry, he would get a pink flush in the shape of a butterfly in the center of his brow
• good tennis player
• cancer that he had was oat cell carcinoma filling on-half of each lung
• Died November 27, 1978
• First char in the world was Frank B. Walsh Chair of Neuro-ophthalmology

http://www.worldneurosurgery.org/article/0090-3019(85)90325-8/abstract

• Died from the metastatic cancer of the lung
• Timeline
  • 1921: medical degree in Manitoba, Canada
  • 1921-1923: house officer at Winnipeg General Hospital
  • 1923: general practice in Estavan, Saskatchewan
• Surgical practices before ophthalmology
  • delivered babies
  • appendectomies
• Johns Hopkins Hospital for ophthalmology in 1930
• Almost 40 years when he finished his residency
• Research: wanted to research how cases of ophthalmology related to the central nervous system. He collaborated with Dr. Ford, who was writing about neurology.
• This also encouraged Walsh to write down all of his neuro-ophthalmologic cases
• First papers published in 196 and 1947--*is there a way that we can get these papers?*
• Because his papers were on neuro-ophthalmology also dealt with the neuro side, Walsh had to learn more about the neurological specialities.
• Saturday morning clinics
  • "The Clinic" first started in `934; Walsh was chief resident
  • The clinic consisted of presentations of topics
  • At first, it was small, but then it moved to the lecture room in the Wilmer institute
• Walsh very involved in neurosurgery

Awards: (Both in country and abroad)

• Vice president of American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology
• Second Vice President of American Medical Association
• President of American Ophthalmological Society
• Honorary Member of American Neurological Society
• HM Canadian Ophthalmological Society
• HM Australian Ophthalmological Society
• HM German Ophthalmological society
• HM American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• HM Irish Ophthalmological Society
• HM of Brazilian, Sicilian, Columbian, Mexican, Peruvian, Uruguayan Ophthalmological Societies
• Member/President of Board of Scientific Counselors at National Institutes of health
• Prize from American Medical Association
• Howe Medal from American Ophthalmological Society
• First Jules Stein Award from Research to Prevent Blindness
• Proctor Award from American Medical Association
• Karl-Liebrecht Prize from German Ophthalmological Society
• Proctor Medical Award from Association for Research in Ophthalmology
• Bulletin of The Johns Hopkins Hospital prepared in his honor (try to get)
• American Journal of Ophthalmology also has Frank B. Walsh issue (try to get).

Obituary (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0002939479901521?via%3Dihub), article; put in exact citation later

• Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1928)
• Dr. Walsh was independent:
  • the chief of Wilmer Institute, Dr. Wilmer, required that the chief resident (Dr. Walsh) would meet Wilmer at the front door and lead him to the corridor of his office. However, Walsh did not want to do this, and refusing to do this was very unusual.
• Loved to teach
• known as "Pappy" by the house staff and students
• Joined the full time staff of the Wilmer Institute in 1937 once his residency was completed
• Left Wilmer Institute and went into private practice in 1945.
• Partner was Charles Iliff, but that ended in 1957
• Returned to wilmer and became a fulltime member of the faculty
• First non-charimen to be elevated to full professor in 1958 at hopkins
• became emeritus at 1962 (but this was honorary).