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Abstract Details

Walter DeWitt Shelden: The Father of Mayo Neurology
History of Neurology
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BACKGROUND: Shelden started the neurology section at Mayo in 1913.
DESIGN/METHODS: Review of material concerning Shelden in the Mayo Archives.
RESULTS: Shelden graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1891. He attended Rush Medical College, spent two years as an intern at Cook County Hospital, and worked as a general practitioner in Reedsburg, WI for four years. He then received internal medicine training at the University of Vienna for 1.5 years, working with Neusser, Kovacs, Frankl-Hochwart (neurology), Finger, and Monti. He subsequently had a private internal medicine practice and taught at the University of Minnesota for 10 years. He was known as an excellent bedside teacher and diagnostician, and a proficient neurologist. In 1913 he was asked by W.J. Mayo to start the Mayo neurology section. Shelden attained the rank of professor (15 publications), and was head of the neurology section until 1930. His research output was hampered by clinical demand. He was vice president of the ANA in 1938. Shelden died in 1946.
CONCLUSIONS: Shelden exemplified the benefit of post-graduate training in Vienna for the well prepared physician. His recruitment to Mayo Clinic gives insight into how W.J. Mayo chose diagnosticians and developed specialty sections. A neurologic section at the Mayo Clinic was needed for patient care, training of specialists, and to aid neurosurgery. Like Wilhelm Erb, Shelden was an internist who focused primarily on neurology over time. The section of neurology at Mayo Clinic was more like internal medicine than neuropsychiatry because of Shelden's background. He did not publish much and therefore did not have a significant, direct, national influence, but he had an indirect influence via his trainees (H. Woltman, L. Eaton, others).
Authors/Disclosures
Christopher J. Boes, MD, FAAN (Mayo Clinic)
PRESENTER 		Dr. Boes has a non-compensated relationship as a Review Committee for Neurology member with ACGME that is relevant to AAN interests or activities.
Per Soelberg Sorensen No disclosure on file