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In a symposium on the medical legacy of Leon Eisenberg, David DeMaso, who will hold the first chair named in honor of Eisenberg, said his old friend ‘stood up and spoke for what was important.’ Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News Office |
Harvard Medical School fetes scholar, names chairHarvard Medical School (HMS) will endow a new chair named for child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, the School’s longtime Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, starting July 1. Emeritus since 1993, Eisenberg has taught and mentored generations of physicians at Harvard (since 1967) and elsewhere (since 1947). At 86, Eisenberg is still an active medical scholar and writer. Most recently, he has pressed for a rigorous ethical code to avoid conflicts of interest in medical practice – and for screenings for depression in the primary care setting. |
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