A Knight at Keens Table: Ernest H. Wood

摘要

In a photograph given to me by Mrs Janet Wood, her father, Dr Ernest H. Wood, looks somewhat baby-faced, clear-eyed, mischievous, and dapper (Fig 1). Behind this nearly forgotten face is a man responsible for much of neuroradiology as we know it. For the last 15 years, a lecture in his honor has been given here at the University of North Carolina (UNC) by a visiting neuroradiologist, and during my tenure, he has been a sort of eminence grise to us all. Despite being one of the 14 founding members of the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) and its fourth President, little has been written about him in our journal or elsewhere.1,2 Because 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of our Society, I hope to add to this celebration with biographies of some individuals who have impacted neuroimaging. This first one describes the first full-time American neuroradiologist.3