Final Program - American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and ...

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miCHael v. JoHnsTon, md
Presidential Guest Lectureship
Michael Johnston is a pediatric neurologist
and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
and the Chief Medical Officer/Senior
Vice President of Kennedy Krieger Institute .
He graduated from Franklin and Marshall
College and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and did residency
training in pediatrics and child neurology at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital . During residency training he also spent two years as a postdoctoral
fellow with Joseph Coyle in the Department of Pharmacology
at Hopkins . After completion of training he moved to the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor where he became a Professor of Pediatrics and
Neurology in 987 .
He returned to Baltimore in his current position the following year,
and he practices clinical child neurology and carries out basic and
clinical research on mechanisms of brain injury and plasticity . His
group has been especially interested in developing neuroprotective
strategies against glutamate-mediated brain injury in the perinatal
period . This work has been supported by the NIH and has won several
awards including the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award . Recent
work in collaboration with Alec Hoon at Kennedy Krieger is examining
the patterns of white matter injury in children with cerebral palsy using
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) .
Jeffrey kleim, PHd
Mac Keith Press Basic Science Lecturer
Dr . Kleim is currently an Associate Professor
in the Department of Neuroscience at
the University of Florida and the Director
of Translational Rehabilitation Research
at the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center
at the Malcom Randall VA Hospital in
Gainesville Florida . He is funded by several
national funding agencies to conduct
research examining neural plasticity and recovery of function after
stroke in both animal models and stroke patients .
sPeCial guesT sPeakers
eugene bleCk, md
Gayle G . Arnold Award Lecturer
Gene Bleck was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
in 923 of third generation American
German-Swiss immigrant parents . His primary
and secondary educations were at St .
Anastasia School in Waukegan, Illinois and
the Waukegan Township High School . Following
graduation from high school in June
94 , he deferred collage and worked for
Abbott laboratories . During the summer of 94 while washing ampules
on the PM to 7AM shift with four medical students from the University
of Illinois, one of them suggested that he should stuffy medicine .
With that decision, he applied for admission to Marquette University
to begin in September 942 . December 7, 94 , brought the war and
enlistment in the U .S . Naval Reserve . When he entered Marquette for
pre-medical studies in 942, he was enrolled in the Navy V- 2 program
to produce physicians for the war . After a stint as a corpsman at the
U .S . Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois, he continued his studies and
was accepted to the Marquette University School of Medicine in 944 .
When the war ended in 945, he was discharged from the Navy and
continued medical school ending in graduation in 947 .
After internship, he was accepted in the Duke University Orthopaedic
Training program as a fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis in 948 . This was the beginning of his long career in the care
of disabled children and adults . His experience in cerebral palsy began
in 948 with the establishment of the North Carolina Cerebral Palsy Hospital
at Duke in Durham by Lenox D . Baker, Professor of the Orthopaedic
Surgery . As a resident, he attended one of the first meetings of the American
Academy for Cerebral Palsy with its founders in 948 at this hospital .
His residency was interrupted by enlisting in the U .S . Navy as a physician
in response to a plea for physicians by the Secretary of the Navy, James
Forestall . He was sent to the U .S . Navy Hospital, Mare Island, California,
which was designated as an amputation center . After a short stay at the
hospital, he was sent to San Diego for duty on the U .S .S . Maddox, DD 73 ,
Destroyer Division 92 (code: “Cocktail Love”) as part of Task Force 77,
aircraft carrier Valley Forge (code: “Cherry Tree”) which was to be sent to
San Diego to the Straits of Formosa to guard Taiwan from attack by China
. While anchored in Hong Kong, the Korean War began in June 950 .
After a year of sea duty, he returned to Oakland Naval Hospital as an
assistant chief of the amputation service . He was married to Anne
Blewett of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in July 95 and subsequently had
three sons and two daughters . In 952, he resumed his residency and
fellowship with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at
Duke that included a year long assignment at the North Caroline Orthopaedic
Hospital in Gastonia . This gave him a broad experience in
the care and the needs of the disabled children .