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1990 Richardson Lecture — Challenges for Neurology in the Nineties: Will We Survive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Joseph B. Martin
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It is a great honor for me to present the Richardson Lecture this year. Although I was not personally acquainted with Dr. Richardson, his contributions to Canadian neurology are legendary, not the least of which is immortalized in the disease he and his colleagues first described in 1964: Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome.

I have entitled my talk “Challenges for Neurology in the 90s: Will We Survive?”, to highlight some of the issues that I believe are important for us to consider as we embark upon our academic enterprise during the last decade of the 20th century. There are a number of opportunities as well as, potentially, major difficulties that we face, and I wish to focus attention on some of them.

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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1991 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1991

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