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Collection LesM : Michael Lesch Collection

Description

Key

207980

Reference Code Element

LesM

Type

Text

Dates

1961-1990

Extent

0.32 cubic feet (1 box)

Creator

Personal name, Lesch, Michael

Administrative/Biographical History

Michael Lesch was born in Queens, New York. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1960 and a M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1964. After completing a residency in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lesch did a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health. In 1968, he entered a cardiology fellowship program at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital and moved through the academic ranks to associate professor. Lesch was named chief of cardiology at Northwestern University Medical School in 1976. He became department of medicine chairman of the Henry Ford Hospital and Health System in 1989. Lesch returned to New York City in 1998 to become the chief of internal medicine at St.Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital as well as a professor of medicine at Columbia University. Lesch is best known for the study a self-mutilation disorder(Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome) while a medical student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine which bears his name and the name of his mentor, William Nyhan.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, student, 1960-1964

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1964-1966

Scope and Content

The Michael Lesch Collection consists of some personal material related to his time as a medical student and resident at Johns Hopkins (1960-1966). Most noteworthy in the collection is a set of 5 research notebooks which documents the original research of a self-mutilation disorder studied by Michael Lesch and William Nyhan. Lesch was a medical student at the time of the discovery and Nyhan was his mentor in pediatrics. Their discovery led to the naming of the disorder as the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome. The notebooks (composition books) bear the names of both Lesch and Nyhan on the covers; some are also marked "HLH", for Harriet Lane Home. The notebooks contain patient information (PHI), computations, information about procedures, urine calculations, equations, interpretations of results; and contain some loose material within. They are labeled variously; dates range from August 3, 1961 to June 17, 1965.

Access and Use

Access Restrictions

Protected Health Information

Administration

Accession

2009-039

Composed Of

Found 11 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1- Lesch-Nyhan Research Notebook #1	266997	1961-1962	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
2- Lesch-Nyhan Research Notebook #2	266998	1962-1963	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
3- Lesch-Nyhan Research Notebook #3	266999	1963	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
4- Lesch-Nyhan Research Notebook #4	267000	1962-1963	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
5- Lesch-Nyhan Research Notebook #5	267001	1964-1965	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
6- S.P.M Van Der Zee, "Het Lesch-Nyhan Syndroom"	267002	1972	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
7- Commentary on Movie on the Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome	267003	Undated	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
8- Philip A. Tumulty, "Some Medical Advice"	267004	1965, 1964	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
9- The New Yorker: "An Error in the Code"	267005	2007	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
10- Michael Lesch, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Identification Card	267006	1964	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection
11- Photographs of Michael Lesch	267007	circa 1965; 1989	Folder	CollectionLesM- Michael Lesch Collection

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