Michael Lesch
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| Born | June 30, 1939 New York City, New York, United States |
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March 19, 2008 (aged 68) Argentina |
| Occupation | Physician |
Michael Lesch (June 30, 1939 – March 19, 2008) was a distinguished Jewish American physician and medical educator who helped identify an important genetic disorder associated with retardation and self-mutilation. This disease is now known as the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. In the mid-1960s when the syndrome was discovered, Lesch was a Research Associate, working at the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry at the NIH National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Bill Nyhan, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, was his mentor. Lesch was not yet 30 years old when he discovered the disease.
Lesch completed his medical training at Johns Hopkins in the Osler Medical Service in 1964. While at Hopkins he earned the distinguished honor of President, Alpha Omega Alpha, The Johns Hopkins University Chapter.
Michael Lesch was born in 1939 in Queens in New York City. He attended Columbia University, attaining Phi Beta Kappa during his junior year and graduating summa cum laude, before entering medical school at Johns Hopkins. After receiving his medical degree, Lesch became an internist and specialized in cardiology.
In the 1970s Lesch distinguished himself early on in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. In 1971-72 he was appointed Chief Resident at the Brigham Hospital. Between the years of 1974-1976, he became an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Director of the S.A. Levine Cardiac Center at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
In 1976, he moved with his family from Boston to Chicago, where he took the position of Chief, Section of Cardiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, a position he held for 12 years. At age 37, he was one of the youngest Section Chiefs ever appointed at Northwestern in the Department of Cardiology.
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