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Donlin M. Long, MD PhD
Address: Johns Hopkins University Hospital
600 N. Wolfe St. Carnegie 466
Baltimore, MD 21287-0005
Country: United States
Telephone: (410)614-3536
Fax: (410)955-6407
E-mail: dmlong@jhmi.edu
Membership Status: Senior
Donlin M. Long, MD PhD
Baltimore, MD
United States
Elected: 1973
Vice President: 1992-1993
DONLIN MARTIN LONG was born in Rolla, Missouri in 1934, and his early years were divided between family farms in the Ozarks and their home in Jefferson City. In 1952, he entered the University of Missouri, with a dual interest in physics and mathematics. When he entered the University of Missouri Medical School (M.D., 1959), in 1955, he was interested in the sciences, but not convinced that he wished to practice medicine. He served a surgical internship at the University of Minnesota (1959-1960), undecided between neurosurgery, neurology, and psychiatry as a career. There, a brief exposure to the spectacular surgery and equally spectacular teaching of Dr. Lyle French, convinced him to enter neurological surgery. He was accepted for a Residency at Minnesota in 1980. Since there were two more experienced residents beginning that year, he entered graduate school in the Department of anatomy under Dr. J. Francis Hartman, pioneer electron microscopist. This association culminated with a Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy (1964). The focus of his graduate work was the ultrastructural delineation of the features of human brain swelling and studies on the effects of steroids on brain edema. He was a resident in Neurosurgery at Minnesota (1960-64), and in 1965, was fortunate to secure a Chief Residency with Dr. Donald Matson at Children Hospital in Boston.
On completion of his residency, he went to the National Institute of Health as a Clinical Associate in the Branch of Surgical Neurology, where he entered the laboratories of experimental neuropathology, under the direction of Dr. Igor Klatzo (1965-1967). In 1967, he returned to the University of Minnesota as a junior faculty member, remaining until 1973, when he accepted his current position as the holder of the Chair of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and became Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Long considers his most important scientific contributions to be in the area of brain edema. His original work was most important in establishing the ultra structural features of brain edema and the discovery of the open vascular junctions in human brain tumors which are responsible for the absence of the blood brain barrier. His important clinical contributions include the clinical studies which introduced gluco-steroid therapy for brain edema in association with French and Galicich and in the field of pain, where he introduced transcutaneous electrical stimulation in the medical practice and pioneered in the study of spinal stimulation for pain control.
Dr. Long founded the department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, founded the Department of Clinical Neurosciences through partnership with Neurology and planned the Adolf Meyer Clinical Sciences Center, which combines Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery. The Department was founded upon the multi-disciplinary center of expertise concept and the belief that sub-specialization in Neurosurgery was the way of the future. From these concepts developed the Johns Hopkins Pain Treatment Center, who studies detailing the complex nature of chronic pain and the multiple factors which must be involved in the analysis of pain complains are significantly more important than the studies of simple treatment forms. His experience with acoustic tumors is one of the largest in the world and his studies of the failed back syndrome have provided significant insights into the reasons for surgical failure in the treatment of spinal diseases. Dr. Long has pioneered in the use of long term prospective outcomes studies in Neurosurgery focused upon the treatment of the diagnosis and treatment of back and leg pain. He was among the first Neurosurgeons to recognize the technical challenges of skull bass tumors and his experience with meningiomas in the base of skull is one of the largest yet reported.
In 1959 he married Harriett Kallenbach, also from Jefferson City, a graduate of Christian College and the University of Missouri. They have three children: Kimberly Page, 39, a Mount Holyoke graduate with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins who is a historian and on the Johns Hopkins University Faculty; Elisabeth Merchant, 36, Director of the Digital Library Development Center at the University of Chicago; and David Bradford, 33, Vice President of Product Development, mindsurf.
Harriett serves on the Board of Trustees of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Her principal hobby is cooking. The Longs' major recreation is travel and their chief travel interests are history and art. Donlin continues his interest in guns and gunning, fishing and is an avowed lover of the wilderness. Everyone has a special place and his is in the lonely land of the far North.
Dr. Long retired as Chair of Neurosurgery and Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery September 1, 2000, after nearly 28 years in that position. He continues an active practice and continues research interests in the genesis of low back pain, the acquisition and application of knowledge in the residency training and the assessment of competency. His major contribution in education was development of the concept of competency based training, a topic now receiving world-wide attention.
Address: Johns Hopkins University Hospital
600 N. Wolfe St. Carnegie 466
Baltimore, MD 21287-0005
Country: United States
Telephone: (410)614-3536
Fax: (410)955-6407
E-mail: dmlong@jhmi.edu
Membership Status: Senior
Donlin M. Long, MD PhD
Baltimore, MD
United States
Elected: 1973
Vice President: 1992-1993
DONLIN MARTIN LONG was born in Rolla, Missouri in 1934, and his early years were divided between family farms in the Ozarks and their home in Jefferson City. In 1952, he entered the University of Missouri, with a dual interest in physics and mathematics. When he entered the University of Missouri Medical School (M.D., 1959), in 1955, he was interested in the sciences, but not convinced that he wished to practice medicine. He served a surgical internship at the University of Minnesota (1959-1960), undecided between neurosurgery, neurology, and psychiatry as a career. There, a brief exposure to the spectacular surgery and equally spectacular teaching of Dr. Lyle French, convinced him to enter neurological surgery. He was accepted for a Residency at Minnesota in 1980. Since there were two more experienced residents beginning that year, he entered graduate school in the Department of anatomy under Dr. J. Francis Hartman, pioneer electron microscopist. This association culminated with a Ph.D. in Neuroanatomy (1964). The focus of his graduate work was the ultrastructural delineation of the features of human brain swelling and studies on the effects of steroids on brain edema. He was a resident in Neurosurgery at Minnesota (1960-64), and in 1965, was fortunate to secure a Chief Residency with Dr. Donald Matson at Children Hospital in Boston.
On completion of his residency, he went to the National Institute of Health as a Clinical Associate in the Branch of Surgical Neurology, where he entered the laboratories of experimental neuropathology, under the direction of Dr. Igor Klatzo (1965-1967). In 1967, he returned to the University of Minnesota as a junior faculty member, remaining until 1973, when he accepted his current position as the holder of the Chair of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and became Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Long considers his most important scientific contributions to be in the area of brain edema. His original work was most important in establishing the ultra structural features of brain edema and the discovery of the open vascular junctions in human brain tumors which are responsible for the absence of the blood brain barrier. His important clinical contributions include the clinical studies which introduced gluco-steroid therapy for brain edema in association with French and Galicich and in the field of pain, where he introduced transcutaneous electrical stimulation in the medical practice and pioneered in the study of spinal stimulation for pain control.
Dr. Long founded the department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, founded the Department of Clinical Neurosciences through partnership with Neurology and planned the Adolf Meyer Clinical Sciences Center, which combines Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery. The Department was founded upon the multi-disciplinary center of expertise concept and the belief that sub-specialization in Neurosurgery was the way of the future. From these concepts developed the Johns Hopkins Pain Treatment Center, who studies detailing the complex nature of chronic pain and the multiple factors which must be involved in the analysis of pain complains are significantly more important than the studies of simple treatment forms. His experience with acoustic tumors is one of the largest in the world and his studies of the failed back syndrome have provided significant insights into the reasons for surgical failure in the treatment of spinal diseases. Dr. Long has pioneered in the use of long term prospective outcomes studies in Neurosurgery focused upon the treatment of the diagnosis and treatment of back and leg pain. He was among the first Neurosurgeons to recognize the technical challenges of skull bass tumors and his experience with meningiomas in the base of skull is one of the largest yet reported.
In 1959 he married Harriett Kallenbach, also from Jefferson City, a graduate of Christian College and the University of Missouri. They have three children: Kimberly Page, 39, a Mount Holyoke graduate with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins who is a historian and on the Johns Hopkins University Faculty; Elisabeth Merchant, 36, Director of the Digital Library Development Center at the University of Chicago; and David Bradford, 33, Vice President of Product Development, mindsurf.
Harriett serves on the Board of Trustees of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Her principal hobby is cooking. The Longs' major recreation is travel and their chief travel interests are history and art. Donlin continues his interest in guns and gunning, fishing and is an avowed lover of the wilderness. Everyone has a special place and his is in the lonely land of the far North.
Dr. Long retired as Chair of Neurosurgery and Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery September 1, 2000, after nearly 28 years in that position. He continues an active practice and continues research interests in the genesis of low back pain, the acquisition and application of knowledge in the residency training and the assessment of competency. His major contribution in education was development of the concept of competency based training, a topic now receiving world-wide attention.