Henry Joseph Macaulay Barnett ( Eng. Henry Joseph Macaulay Barnett ; February 10, 1922 , Newcastle upon Tyne , UK - October 20, 2016 , Toronto ) is a Canadian neurologist . Barnett, known as a researcher in the prevention and control of the effects of strokes , was the founder of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at the University of Western Ontario and the Research Institute. Robarts. Companion to the Order of Canada (2003), Member of the (1995), Honorary Doctor of Science , University of Oxford, and Honorary Member of several National Academies.
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Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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Biography
Henry Barnett was born in Newcastle (England) in 1922 in the family of the Anglican priest Thomas Barnett and Sadi Macaulay; he was the third child of seven. When Henry was three years old, the family moved to Canada, where Thomas Barnett led a parish in Toronto. As a child, Henry was interested in birds and, during his years at the preparatory school at the University of Toronto, dreamed of a biologist career, but at the insistence of his father, who hoped that his son would choose a more practical and profitable profession, in 1939 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Toronto [1] .
After graduating from university in 1944, Barnett completed an internship at the Toronto General Hospital, where he met with nurse Katlin (Kay) Gurley. They got married in 1946. On the advice of his supervisor, Barnett chose neurology, which was emerging in those years, as a specialization. After completing his specialization in Toronto and the UK (first at the National Neurological and Neurosurgical Hospital in London, and then at Oxford [2] ), he joined the staff of the Toronto General Hospital [1] . From the same year, he taught at the Department of Neurology of the University of Toronto, and in 1967 he founded the Department of Neurological Sciences at the Sunnybrook Medical Center (Toronto) [2] . However, since Toronto still regarded neurology as part of psychiatry, in 1969 Barnett accepted the invitation of Dr. Charles Drake (a friend of his at the National Neurological and Neurosurgical Hospital, who later became related [3] ) and moved to East Ontario University in London ( Ontario), where he participated in the creation of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, which combined training in neurology and neurosurgery. In 1974, Barnett headed this department [1] , in which he played a leading role in his field in Canada and the world. At Barnett’s insistence, the University of Western Ontario created regular places for three neuropathologists (at a time when there were three representatives of this specialty throughout the country), an angiogram of the common carotid artery was made for every patient who had a stroke at the University Medical Center - practice, nowhere else no longer applied. Barnett-educated specialists (including Tom Fisbee, and George Ebers) have become some of the leading neurologists in the world [2] .
During his years at the University of Western Ontario, Barnett conducted research on ways to prevent strokes and combat their effects that brought him international fame (see Contribution to Science ) . In 1970, he became one of the founders of the Canadian Society for the Study of Strokes ( English Canadian Stroke Society ), and from 1981 to 1986 he served as editor-in-chief of the specialized scientific journal Stroke [1] . Already in the early 1990s, he was called to New York as a consultant for the stroke-suffering Lubavitcher Rebbe . Another area of his scientific interests was spinal cord diseases, including post-traumatic syringomyelia [3] .
In 1986, together with Drake Barnett founded in London (Ontario), which he headed for the next eight years [2] . This research institution was completely independent of both the University of Western Ontario and the local hospital, for which Barnett had to obtain funding from the Prime Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister of Ontario [3] . He continued to work at the institute until 1999, when he retired and moved to the village of King (Ontario), where he bought land in 1955, but continued to write, publishing his memoirs in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences in 2010 [1] . During these years, he also actively participated in the work of the environmental organization Nature Conservancy of Canada [3] .
The wife of Henry Barnett Kay, who gave birth to four children, died in 2006 [1] . He himself survived it for ten years, passing away at the age of 94 in Toronto [2] .
Contribution to Science
Over the years of his scientific career, Dr. Barnett has published hundreds of works, including the standard stroke guide Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment, and the monograph Syringomyelia, published in 1973, which contains the results of observations for 200 patients with this rare disease. Among the clinical syndromes diagnosed and described by him are acute tension neuropathy, onion collector neuropathy, common carotid artery occlusion syndrome, stroke due to mitral valve prolapse , and external carotid stenosis syndrome [2] .
In the 1970s, the first national randomized study, led by Henry Barnett, proved the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing strokes. In addition to the fact of the evidence of the possibility of preventing strokes (according to his student, and later dean of the faculty of medicine at Oxford University Alistair Buchan, Barnett was “the neurologist who turned a stroke from the Divine Providence into an event that doctors can prevent” [4] ) , its significance also consisted in proving the need for a rigorous consistent experimental methodology when conducting research on a similar scale [2] .
Another important study led by Barnett was an international project to analyze the effectiveness of the operation, popular in those years, known as intracranial-intracranial bypass surgery . The results of the study showed that the effectiveness of this technique to eliminate the consequences of a stroke is inconsistent, which caused a sharp reaction, since billions of dollars were invested in these operations [1] . In the 1990s, a large-scale study led by Barnett was devoted to testing the effectiveness of another popular technique - carotid endarterectomy. As in the case of aspirin tests, these studies were distinguished by a rigorous rigorous methodology, in the latter case involving a consistent reproducible quantitative assessment of stenosis [3] .
Recognition of Merit
Dr. Barnett is an honorary member of several foreign academies and medical societies, including the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (1993) [5] and the Royal Medical Society [3] . In 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford . Barnett also held honorary degrees from the University of Western Ontario , Dalhousie University , Utrecht University, and the New York Institute of Technology [2] .
In 1984, Henry Barnett became an officer of the Order of Canada as an “international authority on neurovascular disease,” who brought Canada fame with his work in the research and treatment of strokes. In 2003, he was promoted to companion to the Order of Canada - the highest degree of this award [6] . In 1995, the name of Henry Barnett was included in the lists of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame [7] . In 2008, Barnett received the Karolinska Stroke Award for Excellence in Stroke Research Prize for Stroke Research (Sweden) [4] ; he is also the recipient of the Killam Prize, an annual award from the Canadian Council of the Arts for outstanding academic excellence [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Diane Peters. Neurologist Henry Barnett proved Aspirin prevents strokes . The Globe and Mail (November 23, 2016). Date of treatment January 20, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 J. David Spence, Vladimir Hachinski. Henry JM Barnett, 1922–2016 // Stroke. - 2017 .-- Vol. 48. - P. 2-4. - DOI : 10.1161 / STROKEAHA.116.015868 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Allan J. Fox. In Memoriam - Henry JM Barnett . American Journal of Neuroradiology Blog (October 28, 2016). Date of treatment January 20, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Ned Stafford. Henry JM Barnett // The BMJ . - 2016. - Vol. 355. - DOI : 10.1136 / bmj.i6293 .
- ↑ Members of the RAMS (as of September 1, 2010): Foreign members of the RAMS . Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Date of treatment January 20, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 Order of Canada: Henry JM Barnett, CC, MD, D.Sc., FRCP (C.) . The Office of the Governor General of Canada. Date of treatment January 20, 2017.
- ↑ Dr. Henry JM Barnett . The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Date of treatment January 20, 2017.
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- Dr. Henry JM Barnett . The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Date of treatment January 20, 2017.