Russell Morse Wilder

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Russell Morse Wilder
BornNovember 24, 1885
Cincinnati, Ohio
DiedDecember 16, 1959
Rochester, Minnesota
OccupationPhysician

Russell Morse Wilder Sr. (November 24, 1885 – December 16, 1959)[1] was an American physician, diabetologist, epileptologist, and medical researcher, known as one of the originators of the ketogenic ("classic keto") diet as a therapy for both epilepsy[2][3] and diabetes.[4][5] He coined the term "ketogenic diet."[2] He was also among the first American physicians to use insulin for patients with diabetes.[5]

Biography

At the

Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital,[1] where he worked from 1914 to 1917[6] and completed his medical residency.[1] While he worked at Presbyterian Hospital, he was a fellow at the Sprague Memorial Institute from 1915 to 1917.[6]

At the Mayo Clinic, Wilder was a staff member from 1919 to 1929[6] and was section head for all the diabetic patients.[1] At the Mayo Foundation he was an assistant professor from 1919 to 1922 and an associate professor from 1922 to 1929.[6] From 1929 to 1931 he was a professor of medicine and chair of the department of medicine at the University of Chicago. In 1931 he rejoined the staff of the Mayo Clinic and became, at the Mayo Foundation, a full professor and head of the department of medicine. At the Mayo Clinic he investigated clinical problems of metabolism and nutrition. In 1950 he retired from the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation to become the first director of the newly formed National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. In 1953, due to health problems, he retired as the institute's director and returned to Rochester, Minnesota.[1]

Wilder was the author or co-author of more than 250 papers and contributed to several medical textbooks and to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He served "at various times on the editorial board of the

Archives of Internal Medicine, the editorial committee of Nutrition Reviews and as an associate editor of Public Health Reports."[1] He used his expertise in medicine and nutrition to serve the U.S. Federal government in several committees and agencies, especially during WW II.[1] For a one-year term from 1946 to 1947 he was the president of the American Diabetes Association.[1] In 1950 he delivered the Frank Billings Lecture.[7] In 1954 he received the American Medical Association's Joseph Goldberger Award in Clinical Nutrition. In 1956 he was the president of the National Vitamin Foundation, which in 1954 created the Russell M. Wilder Fellowship. In 1956 he received an award from the American Bakers Association "in recognition of his leadership in promoting enrichment of white flour and bread with vitamins."[1]

On March 18, 1911, in Butler, Ohio, he married Lucy Elizabeth Beeler (1889–1968). Upon his death he was survived by his widow and two sons, Russell Morse Wilder, Jr., M.D. (1912–1979) and Thomas Carroll Wilder, M.D. (1915–1961).

Selected publications

Articles

Books

References

  1. ^
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  2. ^
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  3. S2CID 204963505
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  4. Macleod, John James Rickard; Campbell, Walter Ruggles (1925). Insulin: Its Use in the Treatment of Diabetes
    . Williams & Wilkins. p. 124.
  5. ^ a b "A Line in the Sand – Mayo Clinic's role in insulin research". Discovery's Edge, Mayo Clinic's Research Magazine. March 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e Cattell, J., ed. (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary (8th ed.). Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 2706.
  7. PMID 14778728
    . (1950 Frank Billings Lecture)
  8. JSTOR 3411460
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