Walton O. Schalick III

Biography

Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medical History, Rehabilitation Medicine, History of Science and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walt’s research embraces a triptych of: the history of medieval medicine and pharmacology, the history of children with physical disabilities in 19th- and 20th-century Europe and the US, and the practical ethics of pediatric emergency research, some of which has appeared in articles and chapters and the balance of which is pending in two monographs. He is Associate Editor for the five-volume, Encyclopedia of Disability (2005) which won Best Reference Award from the Library Journal and an Outstanding Award from the American Library Association's Booklist Journal.

Walt and Monica Green are co-directors of an NEH Summer Seminar (Disease and Disability in the Middle Ages) to be held at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in London from July 5-August 8, 2009.

Walt and Julie Anderson are co-editors for the book series, Disability History, through Manchester University Press/Palgrave MacMillan.

Walt has received a grant to inaugurate a new multi-national/multi-center consortium of scholars and educators working with and on the subject of disability in our world, WUNDER (The Worldwide Universities Network for Disability Education and Research).

In addition to being an historian, Walt is a practicing pediatrician and rehabilitation physician. One of a small number of MD-PhD socio-humanists in the US, Walt is active in helping younger scholars in the field. Dr. Schalick’s clinical research interests are in pediatric rehabilitation and disability and the interface of policy and medical ethics with respect to children. He has worked extensively in the areas of cerebral palsy, neural tube defects, and pediatric physical disabilities as well as general pediatrics. Professor Schalick is the principal investigator on several externally supported research studies and has consulted for the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. He is/has been on the editorial board of several journals in the history of medicine, clinical and research medicine, has edited several book projects and has published widely in pediatrics, rehabilitation, disability, and history; he has delivered lectures on four continents and at numerous universities. Walt has also won multiple teaching and mentoring awards in pediatrics, medicine and history. At the University of Wisconsin, he is part of the Disability Studies Cluster Hire designed to help create a Disability Studies program on campus.

Professor Schalick is a Faculty Member or Faculty Affiliate of: the Waisman Center, the Medieval Studies Program, the Center for Global Health, the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, the Center for Global Studies, and the Institute for Research on Poverty.

Education

Ph.D. in History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 1997, Johns Hopkins University

M.D., Johns Hopkins University

B.A. in Physics and English Literature, 1986, Washington University in St. Louis

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical History & Bioethics

Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopedics & Rehabilitation

Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Member, Waisman Center

Previously
Postdoctoral Training: Intern and Resident, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1995-2000.

Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, 1996-2000.

Chief Resident, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA, 1999-2000.

Clinical Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 1995-2000

Clinical Fellow, Department of PM&R, Harvard Medical School, 1996-2000

Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000-2001

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, 2000-7

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, 2002-7

Associate Director, Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values Washington University in St. Louis, 2006-7

Senior Faculty Fellow for Research, Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values Washington University in St. Louis, 2007

Honors and Awards

William B. Bean Award, American Osler Society, 1992.

Hartford Foundation Clinical Scholar in Geriatric Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1993.

William Osler Medal Contest, Honorable Mention, American Association for the History of Medicine, 1993.

Richard H. Shryock Medal Winner, American Association for the History of Medicine, 1994.

Jerry Stannard Memorial Award Winner, International Award, The University of Kansas, 1994.

Von L. Meyer Fellow, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 1997.

Manuel J. Lipson, MD Award, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, 2000.

Caring Spirit Award, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, 2001.

Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholar Award, 2002.

J. R. Kantor Research Fellow, Archives of the History of American Psychology, 2005.

Teaching Awards
Phi Alpha Theta Advisor of the Year, Washington University, 2002.

Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, General Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, 2002.

Clinical Teacher of the Year Award (2001-2002), Washington University School of Medicine, 2002.

Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2003, 2004, 2005.

Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, General Medicine, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, 2005.

Clinical Teacher of the Year Award (2005-2006), Washington University School of Medicine, 2006.

Fellowships and Grants

1997-2001, Co-Investigator, “Rehabilitative Care of Children with Neuropathic Pain”, Charles Berde, M.D., Ph.D., P.I., National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institute of Child Health and Development, NIH; Grant No. NIH-NICHHD 1RO1HD35737

2001-2005 Site Co-Investigator, “EMSC Network Development Demonstration Project”, Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H., P.I., Maternal and Child Health Bureau, UO3 MC 00001-01

2005-2008 Site Co-Investigator, “EMSC Network Development Demonstration Project”, Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H., P.I., Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U03MC00001

Logan Clendening Traveling Fellowship in the History of Medicine, The University of Kansas Medical Center

Dean’s Medical Student Research Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Dissertation Grant: "Jean de Saint-Amand and the Development of Medieval Medical Pharmacology”

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Special Institutional Grant: "The Henry E. Sigerist Medieval Manuscript Project", P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III.

Provost’s Interfaculty Grant, Harvard University: “Disability Studies Faculty Group”, Co-P.I.: Marc Shell, PhD and Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

Barnes Jewish Hospital Medical Staff Grant, “Junior Faculty Speakers’ Series”, Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

2002-6, Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholar Award: “Crippling the Child and Childing the Cripple: The History of Children with Disabilities in France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S., 1800-1950”, P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

2002, Center for the Study of Human Values, Washington University: “Disabilities and Human Values: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Grant Proposal”, P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

2003 Faculty Research Grant, Washington University: “Crippling the Child and Childing the Cripple: The History of Children with Disabilities in France”, P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

2003 Graduate Dean’s Grant, Washington University: “Disability Studies – a Faculty Reading Group”, co-P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD and Robert Pollak, PhD

2003, Center for the Study of Human Values, Washington University: “Medical Humanities and Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Grant Proposal”, co-P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD with Conevery Bolton Valencius, PhD and Michael C. Finke, PhD

2004 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) "Disability Studies and the Legacies of Eugenics," P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

2005 Archives of the History of American Psychology Grant, “Normalizing the Child: Arnold Gesell and Pediatric Development”, P.I.: Walton O. Schalick, III, MD, PhD

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Dyer D, Feig S, Schalick WO. Transcripts of Interviews with Mary Ellen Wohl, Mary Ellen Avery, David G. Nathan, Alexander Nadas and Louis K. Diamond. Boston: Harvard Medical School, 2001.

Albrecht GA, Bichenbach J, Mitchell D, Schalick WO, Snyder S, eds. Encyclopedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Press, 2005 (won Best Reference Award (2005) from the Library Journal along with an Outstanding Award from the American Library Association's Booklist Journal).

Schalick WO: Marketing Medicine: Medical and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Paris, 1200-1400 (in submission).

In preparation:
Schalick WO. Childing the Cripple and Crippling the Child: Children with Physical
Disabilities in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, 1800-1905

Articles Published in the Last 10 Years

Schalick WO: The Henry E. Sigerist medieval manuscript reproduction collection: a finding list. Bull Hist Med 1997; 71: 305-15.

Wharton RH, Schalick WO: From recovery through rehabilitation: you can get there from here. New Horiz 1998; 6: 363-373.

Schalick WO: The face behind the mask: Medical cosmetology and physiognomy in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Europe. In: Sakai S and Kuriyama S, eds. Images of the Body: Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West. Tokyo, Japan: Ishiyaku EuroAmerica; 1999: 295-312.

Schalick WO: Voices from the past: children, disability and rehabilitation in history. Pediatr Rehabil 2001; 4: 91-5.

Schalick WO. To market, to market: The theory and practice of opiates in the Middle Ages. In: Meldrum M, ed. Opioids and Pain Relief: A Historical Perspective Seattle, WA: IASP Press 2003; 25: 5-20.

Siebens H Cairns K Schalick WO Fondulis D Corcoran P Bartels E. PoWER Program – People with disabilities Educating Residents. American Journal of Physical Medicine &
Rehabilitation 2004; 83: 203-209.

Kirschenbaum E Schalick WO Faber DP Finger S: Marc Henry Landouzy and Pediatric Facial Nerve Paralyses. Pediatric Rehabilitation 8; 2005: 180-6.

Schalick WO: Speculum medicinae: Reflections of a Medievalist-Clinician. In: Duffin J, ed. Clio in the Clinic. Oxford: Oxford University Press and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005 , pp. 27-45.

Schalick WO: The Fog of War and the Declining Prevalence of Mental Retardation; Editorial on Brosco et alia, The Impact of Specific Medical Interventions on Reducing the Prevalence of Mental Retardation. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 2006;116:318-20.

Schalick WO. “"Morbus per se? Pain and Its Treatment in 13th- and 14th-Century Europe. In: Fuhshi Lin, ed. Medical History: Symposium of the History of Disease (Taiwan: Linking Publishing, in press).

Schalick WO: Neurology in the Middle Ages. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd series: History of Neurology volume, edited by F. Boller, S. Finger and K. Tyler* (Edinburgh, UK: Elsevier) (in press).

Nicole Glaser N, Kuppermann N, Marcin J, Schalick WO. Letter. American Journal of Bioethics (in press).

Schalick WO. The History of cutaneous carcinogenesis. In: Miller SJ and Maloney ME, eds., Cutaneous Oncology: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998: 2-7.

Schalick WO. The history of squamous cell cancer. In: Miller SJ and Maloney ME eds., Cutaneous Oncology: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998: 180-182.

Schalick WO. The history of malignant melanoma. In: Miller SJ and Maloney ME. Cutaneous Oncology: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998: 350-352.

Schalick WO. The history of basal cell carcinoma. In: Miller SJ and Maloney ME eds. Cutaneous Oncology: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1998: 578-580.

Schalick WO: Neural tube defects. In: Frontera WR and Silver J, eds. Essentials of Outpatient Rehabilitation. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, 2001: 620-5.

Schalick WO: Neural tube defects. In: Frontera WR and Silver J, eds. Essentials of Outpatient Rehabilitation: Review & Self-Assessment. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, 2002: 273-4.

Schalick WO: Amor Heroes (p. 101); St. Augustine (pp. 144-5); Arnold Gessell (pp. 798); Bronson Crothers (p. 329); Cerebral Palsy (pp. 233-5); Children, Youth and Adolescence (pp. 245-54); Discredited Therapies (pp. 500-1); Edward the Confessor (pp. 574-5); Edouard Séguin (pp. 1433-4); Galen (p. 756); Hippocrates (pp. 851); Howard Rusk (pp. 1422-3); Katakori (pp. 1010); Medieval West (pp. 868-73); Interdisciplinary Teams (pp. 964-6); Pediatric Rehabilitation (pp. 1226-8); Scoliosis (pp. 1430-1); Xenodisability (pp. 1655). In: Albrecht GA, Bichenbach J, Mitchell D, Schalick WO, Snyder S, eds. Encyclopedia of Disability (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, 2005).

Schalick WO: Despars, Jacques (pp. 151-2); Instruments, medical (pp. 271-2); John of Saint-Amand (pp. 290-1); and Lanfranco of Milan (pp. 305-6). In: Thomas Glick, Steven Livesey and Faith Wallis, eds. Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia (London: Routledge Press, 2005).

Alessandro Medico and Schalick WO: Peter of Abano (pp. 1000-2). In: Helen Bynum and William F. Bynum, eds. Dictionary of Medical Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007).

Schalick WO: Gilles of Corbeil (pp. 551-2); Henry of Mondeville (pp. 630-1); John of Gadesden (pp. 711-2); John of Saint-Amand (pp. 712-4); Peter of Spain (pp. 1002-3); Richard the Englishman (pp. 1069-70); Taddeo Alderotti (pp.1215-17); William of Brescia (pp. ). In: Helen Bynum and William F. Bynum, eds. Dictionary of Medical Biography (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007).

Schalick WO: Obituary: Jerome Joseph Bylebyl. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2006; 80: vii-x.

Schalick WO: Neural tube defects. In: Frontera WR Silver J and Rizzo T, eds. Essentials of Outpatient Rehabilitation. 2nd edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier, in press.

Schalick WO: Disability, Apothecaries, Physicians, Jean de Saint-Amand, Pulse, Scrofula. In: Bjork, Robert, ed. Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in review.

Schalick WO: Cerebral Palsy, Children, Children’s Bureau, Seguin, Spina Bifida. In: Burch S, ed. Encyclopedia of American Disability History. NY: Facts on File, in review.

Editorial Responsibilities

Editorial Board, Rehab in Review, 1997-98, 99, Acting Regional Board Chair 7-8/99.
Section Editor and Editorial Board, Pediatric Rehabilitation, 2001-2006.

Editorial Board, World Federation of Neurological Rehabilitation Newsletter, 2005-
present.

Editorial Board, Social History of Medicine, 2006-2009.

Editorial Board, Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 2007-present.

International Editorial Board, Electronic Thorndike-Kibre Catalog of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin (NLM, NIH), 2002-present.

Medieval Area Editor, Dictionary of Medical Biography (Greenwood Press), 2004-7.

Associate Editor, American College of Surgeons Ethics Web-portal, 2007-present.

Co-editor, Disability History: A Series (Manchester University Press)

Current Research Projects/Interests

Medieval Western medicine, disability history, history of childhood and pediatrics, bioethics and children

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• 507: Health, Disease and Healing I
• 668: A History of Western Disability