Sidney Schulman, MD (1923–2014)

Abstract

Sidney Schulman, MD, former Chief of Neurology at the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, died in Chicago on January 31, 2014, in his 90th year. He was born and educated at the University of Chicago and its medical school. He is survived by 3 children and many grandchildren; his wife Mary died in 2011. After his army service at the close of World War II, he became a neurologist and neuropathologist under the tutelage of Dr. Richard B. Richter, who founded the University of Chicago's Division of Neurology within the Department of Medicine in 1936. There was one trainee each year, and it was not until the 1970s that the number increased to 2. As residents in the 1960s, we worked with a faculty of 6 in a remarkably intimate way, arranging our own schedules and working as junior colleagues with memorable independence and responsibility.