Morton
A. Meyers, M.D.
Happy Accidents:
Serendipity in
Modern Medical Breakthroughs
October 3, 2007 12:30 pm
Morton A. Meyers, MD, is a Distinguished University Professor in
the School of Medicine at the State University of New
York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, where he was the founding chair of the Department
of Radiology. He received his medical degree from SUNY
Upstate Medical
College and, after an internship in
medicine at Bellevue Hospital (New York, NY), completed a residency in radiology at Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center.
Among
many honors Dr. Meyers received the Wilhelm
Conrad Roentgen Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society (1975) and
gold medals from the University
of Leeds (1980), the
Asian-Oceanian Congress of Radiology (1987), the European Congress of Radiology
(1995), and the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (1998). He was a founding editor-in-chief
of Gastrointestinal Radiology (now Abdominal Imaging) and has served on the
editorial boards of numerous journals. In
addition to authoring many volumes, chapters, reviews, and peer-reviewed
articles, he is most
recently the author of Happy Accidents:
Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs (2007).
Among his publications are:
1. Meyers MA, Baker SR, Berne AS, et al. Dynamic Radiology of the Abdomen: Normal and Pathologic Anatomy. 5th ed. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 2000.
2. Oliphant M, Berne AS, Meyers MA. The subserous thoracoabdominal continuum: embryologic basis and diagnostic imaging of disease spread. Abdom Imaging. 1999;24:211–219.
3. Meyers MA, ed. Neoplasms of the Digestive Tract: Imaging, Staging, and Management. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins: 1998.
4. Oliphant M, Berne AS, Meyers MA. The subperitoneal space of the abdomen and pelvis: planes of continuity. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1996;167:1433–1439.
5. Meyers MA. Glen W. Hartman Lecture. Science, creativity, and serendipity. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 1995;165:755–764.
6. Meyers MA. The inside dope: cocaine, condoms, and computed tomography. Abdom Imaging. 1995;20:339–340.
7. Meyers MA, McGuire PV. Spiral CT demonstration of hypervascularity in Crohn disease: "vascular jejunization of the ileum" or the "comb sign". Abdom Imaging. 1995;20:327–332.
8. Oliphant M, Berne AS, Meyers MA. Direct spread of subperitoneal disease into solid organs: radiologic diagnosis. Abdom Imaging. 1995;20:141–147.
9. Oliphant M, Berne AS, Meyers MA. Bidirectional spread of disease via the subperitoneal space: the lower abdomen and left pelvis. Abdom Imaging. 1993;18:117–125.
10. Oliphant M, Berne AS, Meyers MA. Spread of disease via the subperitoneal space: the small bowel mesentery. Abdom Imaging. 1993;18:109–116.
11. Meyers MA, Feldberg MA, Oliphant M. Grey Turner's sign and Cullen's sign in acute pancreatitis. Gastrointest Radiol. 1989;14:31–37.
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About Diagnostic Radiology Grand Rounds and CME Credit
Targeted audience: health care providers
Learning objectives:
(1) To
understand the role of chance in medical discoveries;
(2) To
foster the element of serendipity in research; and
(3) To
be alert to restrictions on creativity and the need for perseverance by young
investigators.
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