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The Director’s View From Bath House to Bloomberg George dover, M.d. director, Johns Hopkins Children's Center Given Professor of Pediatrics 2 HOPKINS CHILDreN’S | hopkinschildrens.org In looking ahead at how pediatric medicine might change in our marvelous new building—The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center—it’s constructive to look back to our origins, which surprisingly were in a tiny two-story building known as the “Bath House.” In 1896 baths were considered therapeutic, so a bath house was renovated for children, making it Hopkins’ very first building for children. At the time we had no full-time pediatric faculty, training or research program. But in 1903, Harriet Lane Johnston willed funds for a hospital for invalid children, which resulted in the Harriet Lane Home opening in 1912 and the beginning of the first full-time academic department in pediatrics in this country. The melding of pediatric research and training with patient care followed and Hopkins became known for pioneering pediatric treatments. But by the late 1950s the Harriet Lane Home was outmoded and drawings were drafted for the Children’s Medical & Surgical Center (CMSC). Pediatric academic medicine at Hopkins thrived over the next half century, but like its predecessor the CMSC eventually outlived its space. Parents cited a lack of amenities and faculty inadequate research space. So, in 1998 plans ensued for a new building with a new challenge—how would we sustain the innovation that sustained the Harriet Lane Home and CMSC? We decided to remain independent but also part of this campus, which would allow us to do things in pediatrics a freestanding children’s hospital cannot do. We built in our capacity to do clinical trials, while knowing that what distinguishes us is not just how well we treat a particular disease but the people we attract and the innovations in pediatric medicine we develop. In the future we may have to look at preventing adult diseases as well as treating childhood diseases, which collaborative core labs, rather than single labs, will facilitate. Today we’re very grateful to all of our patients, families, staff and generous donors who collectively had a vision of what our new building should look like. Now we need to continue to set the standard for care by both attracting and teaching the very best and by adapting our research to the new realities. With your help, we know we can do that. Thank you. n Hopkins Children’s is published by The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Office of Communications & Public Affairs 901 S. Bond Street / Suite 550 Baltimore, md 21231 www.hopkinschildrens.org 410-502-9428 Kim Martin Director Gary Logan Editor Wendell Smith Assistant Editor & Senior Writer Julia McMillan, m.d. Peter Mogayzel, m.d. Cozumel Pruette, m.d. Medical Editors Mat Edelson Contributing Writer Max Boam Art Director Abby Ferretti Design Keith Weller, Kevin Webber Photography Naomi Ball Distribution Printed in the U.S.A. ©The Johns Hopkins University 2012 Give us feedback Send letters to Gary Logan at the above address or e-mail: glogan@jhmi.edu. For more information To read more on the clinical services and programs covered in Hopkins Children’s, visit hopkinschildrens.org. How you can help Call 410-516-4545 Cover photo by Keith Weller
Hopkins Scrapbook The Day an era ended On the 100th anniversary of the Children’s Center, a look back at the closing days of the old Harriet Lane Home and the deep sense of loss felt by pediatricians who had worked there. By elaine K. Freeman and edith Nichols To this day, John Littlefield remembers the surprise he felt in the fall of 1973 when he arrived from Boston to become director of Pediatrics and found a group of wistful colleagues awaiting him. After a full decade of updating its pediatric facilities, Hopkins had just opened a new outpatient and emergency center for infants and children to replace the crumbling 62-year-old Harriet Lane Home where these pediatricians had worked. But instead of elation over their modernized quarters, the doctors were feeling nostalgia for what they were losing—the legendary Harriet Lane Home, scheduled for demolition in the spring. Indeed, the Harriet Lane Home had stood as a national icon. Named for its benefactress, the niece of former U.S. President James Buchanan who had married a Baltimorean, it had opened in 1912 as the first center for academic pediatrics in the United States. Offering specialized care for children and infants, as well as research and teaching, before pediatrics even existed at most hospitals, the historic facility inspired so much loyalty among pediatric residents who trained there that they referred to themselves as “Harriet Laners.” “The staff and even the trustees wanted some sort of commemoration,” Littlefield says, “at least a wake.” Littlefield, who’d been trained in internal medicine, not pediatrics, knew he had to show empathy. And so, he quickly organized an official goodbye. Turning to famed pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, who’d begun working in the Harriet Lane Home in 1930, he asked her to put together a 45-minute farewell. That program, billed as the Final Meeting in the Harriet Lane Home Amphitheater, took place on March 14, 1974, and was attended by more than 100 pediatricians, house officers, staff, and trustees. Shivering in the unheated amphitheater, they sat on hard wooden seats that served as bleachers—transfixed as five pediatric giants recounted stories of life in Harriet Lane through the years. Today, the memories of people who were there that day, and a transcript of the proceedings that appeared in the January 1975 Johns Hopkins Medical Journal, paint a picture of an event that marked the end of an era. The physicians Taussig invited to speak had all been pioneers in their pediatric specialties: 82-year-old Hugh Josephs in hematology; neonatologist Alexander J. “Buck” Schaffer; Leo Kanner, recognized as the father of child psychiatry; medical geneticist Barton Childs; and Taussig her- COurTeSy ALAN mASON CHeSNey meDICAL ArCHIVeS Famed pediatric cardiologist Helen taussig put together the program and started things off at the Final Meeting in the Harriet Lane Home, on March 14, 1974. More than 100 nostalgic Harriet Laners turned out, shivering in the unheated amphitheater. Summer 2012 3
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