PAST PRESIDENTS
AND TITLES OF THEIR ADDRESSES |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ACTIVITIES
OF THE AMERICAN CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY SOCIETY
(formerly the American EEG Society)
1935-1996 |
| 1947 |
Herbert H. Jasper, M.D., Ph.D.
The Beginning of Electroencephalography |
1935-45: The first American reports of human EEG activity (1935) rapidly attracted increasing numbers of academic and clinical investigators who were concerned with functions of the brain. By the end of World War II, informal communications among those working with EEG had suggested the desirability of forming a professional society dedicated to its applications.
1946: Representatives from several interested groups, including the American Medical Association, the American Physiological Society, and the American Neurological Association, organized the American EEG Society. Pro tem officers were: Herbert H. Jasper, President; Frederic A. Gibbs, Vice-President; Robert S. Schwab, Secretary; and Mary A.B. Brazier, Treasurer. Forty-four established experimental and clinical EEGers joined them as Charter Members of the Society.
1947: The First Annual Meeting was held in Atlantic City NJ on June 13, 14, and 15. Among the topics discussed were: (1) standards for the design and construction of clinical EEG instruments; (2) procedures to be used when carrying out clinical EEG examinations; (3) education and training, and (4) certification of clinical EEGers. The pro tem officers were re-elected for a second term, and 25 new members were added.
1948: The Society and its members gave financial aid to the International Federation of Societies for EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology to begin publication of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, familiarly known as “The EEG Journal”. The first issue appeared in 1949. The Editor was Herbert Jasper, and many members of AEEGS were among the editorial staff.
1949: A five-member semi-autonomous Board of Qualification of the American EEG Society was appointed and assigned the task of developing examinations to define competence in the practice of clinical EEG. The first Certificates were dated “June, 1949.” The year 1990 marks the beginning of its fifth decade of service to clinical EEG. In 1962 the Board’s base was widened to include representatives from the American Neurological Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Psychiatric Association and it was incorporated as a wholly-independent body, The American Board of Clinical Electroencephalography, Inc., familiarly known as ABQEEG. In 1986 ABQEEG became The American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology (ABCN), which certifies, by examination, applicants whose training has prepared them to specialize in EEG and Evoked Potentials.
1959: The American EEG Society assisted a group of dedicated EEG technologists who were “Subscribing Members” of AEEGS to establish themselves as an entirely independent professional group, which incorporated as the American Society of EEG Technologists.
An ad hoc committee held a Colloqium on Teaching Methods that led to wider adoption of standard procedures in clinical EEG.
1964: Operating with a supporting grant from USPHS, the Committee on Training and Education of the American EEG Society, in conjunction with an ad hoc committee of the American Society of EEG Technologists, organized a conference dedicated to defining qualifications of EEG technologists by direct examinations. From this emerged The American Board of Registration of EEG Technologists (ABRET), the nationally-accepted accreditation facility for EEG technologists.
1966: Highlighting the Society’s 20th Annual Meeting, the Committee on Training and Education organized and presented (with support provided by the USPH Service) its first Course in Clinical Electroencephalography. This has become an annual consolidating update for advanced as well as beginning EEGers.
1969: The American EEG Society and the American Society of EEG Technologists, later joined by the American Medical EEG Association, led the way to establishing the Joint Review Committee on Education and Training of EEG Technologists. This functions under the umbrella of the American Medical Association’s Council on Allied Health Education. Through this, AEEGS continues to shape national educational standards for EEG technologists.
1970: The first four of a series of Guidelines in EEG were published, defining the wide spectrum of technical and professional competencies necessary in clinical applications of EEG and evoked potentials. The Guidelines, from time to time revised, now cover 13 topics. The 1986 revisions are available from the Society’s Executive Office.
1979: “A Syllabus for Clinical Electroencephalographers”, written in collaboration with ABQEEG, defines the minimum essentials required for training in clinical EEG. It serves as a guide for those preparing for the certifying examinations and was updated in 1984.
1984: The Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, a dedicated and authoritative source of critical review and commentary on topics related to clinical applications of neurophysiology, was initiated to serve as the Society’s quarterly publication.
A program for Laboratory Accreditation was begun, creating a benchmark for maintaining minimum standards for clinical EEG laboratories. This includes assessment of: established qualifications of laboratory personnel; equipment; quality of EEG records; patient safety; internal program infectious diseases control; provisions for continuing education.
1986: Coincident with its 40th Annual Meeting, and in recognition of the many contributions made to the fields of theoretical and clinical neurophysiology by its first president, the Society created the Herbert H. Jasper Award.
1987: A post-doctoral fellowship, the Hans Berger Research Fellowship, was established, to enable a young physician who has completed a specialty program, such as neurology or pediatrics, and who currently is studying in the field of clinical neurophysiology, to devote a further year to basic or clinical investigations in EEG.
1995: The Society’s name is changed to The American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (formerly the American Electroencephalographic Society).
1996: The Society holds a Fiftieth Anniversary banquet at the Annual Meeting in Boston. Twenty-two of those who have held the office of President attended.
Now well-settled into its second half-century, with a membership of over 1200, the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society continues to establish and maintain standards of professional excellence in the clinical applications of cerebral neurophysiology. Its Courses and Scientific Meetings provide an annual forum for the exchange of information about the electrical activities of the human brain and its disorders.
Prepared by the History of AEEGS Committee and Society staff. |
1948
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Herbert H. Jasper, M.D., Ph.D.
Charting the Sea of Brain Waves |
| 1949 |
Frederic A. Gibbs, M.D.
The Present Status of Clinical EEG |
| 1950 |
Hallowell Davis, M.D.
Homeostosis of Cerebral Excitability |
| 1951 |
Robert Schwab, M.D. |
| 1952 |
James O’Leary, M.D. |
| 1953 |
Robert B. Aird, M.D.
Propagation of Epileptic Discharge, as Revealed by Activated Electroencephalography |
| 1954 |
Mary A.B. Brazier, D.Sc. |
| 1955 |
A. Earl Walker, M.D.
In the Depths of the Brain |
| 1956 |
Reginald G. Bickford, M.D.
New Dimensions in Electroencephalography |
| 1957 |
John R. Knott, Ph.D.
Anatomical and Physiological Factors in Behavior |
| 1958 |
Robert S. Dow, M.D.
The Relationship of the Cerebellum to Sensory Mechanisms |
| 1959 |
W. Theodore Liberson, M.D.
Functional EEG, the Law of 3.5 and the Hippocampus |
| 1960 |
Arthur A. Ward, Jr., M.D.
Negative Slope Potential Changes in the Cerebral Cortex |
| 1961 |
Jerome K. Merlis, M.D.
Observations on Slow Potentials |
| 1962 |
Charles E. Henry, Ph.D.
EEG in Relation to Space Travel |
| 1963 |
Cosimo Ajmone-Marsan, M.D.
Electrical Activity of the Brain: Slow Waves and Neuronal Activity |
| 1964 |
Peter Kellaway, Ph.D.
1964: Is it time for a Re-appraisal? |
| 1965 |
Donald B. Lindsley, Ph.D.
On the Nature and Role of Thalamocortical Interaction |
| 1966 |
David D. Daly, M.D.
The Effect of Sleep Upon the Electroencephalogram in Patients with Brain Tumors |
| 1967 |
Kenneth A. Kooi, M.D.
The Make-Believe World of the Brain Asleep. Comments on its Concomitants |
| 1968 |
Gian-Emilio Chatrian, M.D.
Pattern-sensitive Epilepsy |
| 1969 |
Robert J. Ellingson, Ph.D., M.D.
(Host-International Congress of EEG and Clinical
Neurophysiology, San Diego, California) |
| 1970 |
Donald W. Klass, M.D.
Growth and Maturation of the American EEG Society |
| 1971 |
Daniel Silverman, M.D.
Current Developments in the Cerebral Death Problem |
| 1972 |
Eli S. Goldensohn, M.D.
Spreading Depression and Seizures |
| 1973 |
Richard D. Walter, M.D. |
| 1974 |
Janice R. Stevens, M.D.
All that Spikes is not Fits: Opus Two, Sunlight and the Third Eye |
| 1975 |
Ernst A. Rodin, M.D.
(Joint meeting with Mexican EEG Society) |
| 1976 |
John S. Barlow, M.D.
The Electroencephalogram — Window on the Universe? |
| 1977 |
Fernando Torres, M.D.
Paths and Ways of Epilepsy |
| 1978 |
Frank Morrell, M.D.
Secondary Epileptogenesis in Man: Limits of the Evidence |
| 1979 |
Pierre Gloor, M.D., Ph.D.
When Reading an EEG, Do We Really Know What We Are Looking At? |
| 1980 |
Richard N. Harner, M.D.
Functional Cerebral Topography |
| 1981 |
Jack D. Grabow, M.D.
Cerebral Dominance for Language by Electrophysiological
Techniques |
| 1982 |
Roger Q. Cracco, M.D.
Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Origins and Evolutions |
| 1983 |
Cesare T. Lombroso, M.D.
Neonatal Polygraphy: Present State of the Art and Ways of the Future |
| 1984 |
Robert J. Gumnit, M.D.
The Future of the American EEG Society in the Changing Medical Environment
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| 1985 |
Andrew J. Gabor, M.D., Ph.D.
If EEG is the Answer, What is the Question? |
| 1986 |
Juhn A. Wada, M.D., Med. Sc. D., F.R.C.P.(C)
Kindling in Primates: Predisposition, Brain Site and Distant Consequences |
| 1987 |
Frank W. Sharbrough, M.D.
The Role of the American EEG Society in Developing, Evaluating, and Applying New Techniques |
| 1988 |
Joan B. Cracco, M.D.
Brain Stimulation Revisited |
| 1989 |
Barry R. Tharp, M.D.
Electrophysiological Brain Maturation in Premature Infants: An Historical Perspective |
| 1990 |
Timothy A. Pedley, M.D.
Facing 21st Century Realities |
| 1991 |
Ernst Niedermeyer, M.D.
Danger Signs and Potentialities |
| 1992 |
Barbara Westmoreland, M.D.
The Art of Looking at EEGs |
| 1993 |
Jerome Engel, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigating Human Cerebral Function: Past, Present and Future |
| 1994 |
Marc R. Nuwer, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Neurophysiology In Our Changing Health Care Systems |
| 1995 |
Michael J. Aminoff, M.D.
The Clinical Neurophysiology of Cortical Sensorimtor Function: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
| 1996 |
John S. Ebersole, M.D.
Defining Epileptogenic Foci: Past, Present and Future |
| 1997 |
Solomon L. Moshé, M.D.
Sex and the Substantia Nigra (and Soccer) |
| 1998 |
Warren T. Blume, M.D.
Occipital - Temporal Relationships |
| 1999 |
C. William Erwin, M.D.
Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring: Who Wants It? Who Needs It? Who Will Do It? |
| 2000 |
Michael R. Sperling, M.D.
Intracranial EEG: Going Off The Gold Standard
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| 2001 |
Eli M. Mizrahi, M.D.
Clinical, Electroencephalographic and Quantitative Predictors of Neonatal Seizures |
| 2002 |
Bruce J. Fisch, M.D.
Clinical Significance of Interictal Epileptiform Activity |
| 2003 |
Donald L. Schomer, M.D
Joint Meeting AAEM/IFCN/ACNS |
| 2004 |
Charles M. Epstein, M.D.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Towards a New Clinical Neurophysiology |
| 2005 |
Ronald G. Emerson, M.D.
Brain Waves and Moore's Law: The Shape of Things to Come |
| 2006 |
Richard P. Brenner, M.D. |
| 2007 |
Mark A. Ross, M.D. |
| 2009 |
Alan D. Legatt, M.D., Ph.D.
Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials |
| 2010 |
Gareth J. Parry, M.D.
Multifocal Motor Neuropathy: A 25-Year Retrospective |
| 2011 |
Peter Kaplan, MB, FRCP
From Mysterious Wandering to Coma: Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus
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