Richard Schatzki
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Richard Schatzki (1901–1992) was a
He trained in radiology in Berlin with Hans Heinrich Berg (1889-1968) who was the leading diagnostic radiologist in Germany at that time. He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a radiologist physician in Boston at MGH until 1943. He subsequently took a position as chief of radiology at Mount Auburn Hospital where he established a diagnostic radiology residency training program and was largely responsible for changing Mount Auburn from "minimally sophisticated community hospital into one of the teaching hospitals associated with Harvard Medical School.".[2] He served as president of the New England Roentgen Ray Society, of which he became an honorary member in 1967.
In the 1950s, Schatzki first characterized a type of pathological stricture of the lower esophagus, which is now known as a Schatzki ring.