H. Royden Jones, Jr., MD (1936–2013)

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H. Royden Jones Jr., MD, died of pancreatic cancer on June 4, 2013. He was 76 years old. A native of New Jersey, he graduated from Tufts University and received his medical degree in 1962 from Northwestern University Medical School. This was followed by residency training in internal medicine and neurology at the Mayo Clinic. After service in the US Army Medical Corps as Chief of Neurology at the 5th General Hospital in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, he returned to the Mayo Clinic for fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology. He spent the greater part of his career at the Lahey Clinic, which he joined in 1972, and where he was appointed to the Jaime Ortiz-Patino Chair in Neurology in 1996. He was also a clinical professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jones was an outstanding physician who was much loved by his patients, an extraordinarily influential clinical educator, and a well-known clinical investigator.