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Leon Eisenberg

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Leon Eisenberg will be remembered for his accomplishments in advancing our understanding of the biosocial basis of health and disease in human populations and the social roots of developmental psychopathology. He will also continue to be acclaimed for his contributions to the education of medical students, residents, and fellows as well as fellow faculty members. And he will be remembered as a gifted and greatly influential writer. Yet his most enduring contribution may well be the extraordinary moral example he set of the responsibilities of the scholar and the educator to the wider society. He never took his eye off of the responsibility of science and medicine to improve the lives of the sick, the poor, and the vulnerable.

Leon Eisenberg

Harvard Medical School — Memorial Minute

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DateMarch 3, 2011

In a symposium on the medical legacy of Leon Eisenberg, David DeMaso, who will hold the first chair named in honor of Eisenberg, said his old friend ‘stood up and spoke for what was important.’

Harvard Medical School fetes scholar, names chair

Legendary child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg's career celebrated

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DateJune 25, 2009