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Leon Eisenberg | |
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| Born | August 8, 1922 Philadelphia, US |
| Died | September 15, 2009 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | Child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist, medical educator |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Harriet Bleier Carola Eisenberg |
Leon Eisenberg (August 8, 1922 – September 15, 2009)[1] was an American child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist[2] and medical educator who "transformed child psychiatry by advocating research into developmental problems".[3]
He is credited with several "firsts" in medicine and psychiatry – in child psychiatry, autism, and the controversies around autism, randomized clinical trials (RCTs), social medicine, global health, affirmative action,[4] and evidence-based psychiatry.
He served as Chairperson of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Child and adolescent psychiatry[5] and Harvard Medical School until his retirement in 1988. After retirement, he continued as The Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Psychiatry Emeritus, and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, until a few months before his death in 2009. He received both his BA and MD degrees from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught previously at both the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University. He was chief of psychiatry at both Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston during formative periods in psychiatry for each institution.[6]
- ^ Marquard, Bryan (11 October 2009). "Dr. Leon Eisenberg, at 87; affirmative action advocate". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ The Creation of Psychopharmacology, David Healy, 2002, cites Eisenberg's role in evidence-based social psychiatry
- ^ Stafford, Ned (18 November 2009). "Leon Eisenberg". BMJ. 339: b4615. doi:10.1136/bmj.b4615. S2CID 220108072. Retrieved 20 July 2022 – via www.bmj.com.
- ^ Shanks Thirty Years of Affirmative Action at Harvard Medical School: A Mixed Method Program Evaluation, U Mass EdD Thesis by Alane Shanks (2004)
- ^ "Kanner L and Eisenberg L. Child psychiatry; mental deficiency. American Journal of Psychiatry 1955: 111:520-523". Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Leon Eisenberg papers, 1905-2009 (inclusive), 1968-2005 (bulk). HMS c196. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.