Dr. Ronald Crystal (third from left) is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. From left: Dr. Gerald McElvaney, registrar of the College; Karen Waldman; Dr. Crystal; and Dr. Joseph McKenna, president of the College.
Dr. Ronald Crystal, chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine and the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, was recently elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. At the ceremony held at the historic Royal College headquarters on Kildare Street in Dublin, Dr. Crystal was honored for his contributions to pulmonary research. The citation nominating him to this honor read:
"During his time at NIH and later in Cornell, Ron Crystal transformed Pulmonary Medicine and Pulmonary Research. He changed the discipline from what was essentially physiology-based research to one encompassing cell and molecular biology. His publication record speaks for itself with over 680 publications in the very highest impact journals. His success is attested to by the fact that many of the successful pulmonary programs throughout the U.S. and indeed the world contain at senior levels alumni of his training programs. He is one of the major figures in Pulmonary Medicine."
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland was founded in 1654, and presently has over 3000 members. Among its famous physician presidents were Robert Graves, William Stokes and Dominic Corrigan. Some of the distinguished Honorary Fellows were William Osler, Josef Skoda, Johannes Muller, Armand Trousseau, Jean-Martin Charcot and William Gowers.
Dr. Roger Hartl, assistant professor of neurological surgery, and Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, clinical professor of neurological surgery, were among the Brain Trauma Foundation’s prestigious panel of authors who have contributed to the third edition of the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The expanded and updated guidelines are based on the most rigorous scientific research available. Each author reviews numerous articles in TBI literature to assess their quality and level of research. The guidelines have a huge impact on care, said Dr. Hartl, because it leads to treatment protocols and pathways that unify treatments of head injuries across the world.