Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

• Patient Oriented Research
• Newborn Medicine
• Walton Schalick Research Lab

The triptych of Dr. Schalick's research has three diverse panels. Clinically, he's interested in the application of rehabilitation principles to at-risk newborns, both in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and in the Newborn Follow-up Clinic. His historical research composes two panels. The first involves the characterization of marketplace and educational forces around one of the first university medical schools in the world, the University of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Many of our medical structures have their roots in the Middle Ages. Consequently, understanding how those structures formed and met early challenges can help us understand the challenges medicine faces today. The final panel of the triptych puts the historical and the clinical together in a comparative study of children with disabilities in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States in the nineteenth and twientieth centuries. This ongoing investigation should help us understand the social nature of disabilities.

Education

• A.B., Washington University, 1986
• M.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1995
• Ph.D. in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, 1997

Training

• Intern and Resident in Medicine/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The Children's Hospital, Boston, 1995-2000
• Fellowship in Pediatrics/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, 1995-2000

Selected Publications

1. Schalick WO: (Eds. Sakai S, Kuriyama S): The Face Behind the Mask: Medical Cosmetology and Physiognomy in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century Europe. Images of the Body: Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West 1999; Tokyo: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica.

2. Schalick WO: Add one part medicine to one part pharmacy and one part surgery: Jean de Saint-Amand and the development of medical pharmacology in late thirteenth-century Paris. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2003; 76 (in press).

3. Schalick WO: Voices from the Past: Children, Disability and Rehabilitation in History. Pediatric Rehabilitation 2001; 4:91-5.