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Bernard Wolf, M.D., Chairman of the Dept. of Radiology (1949—1977) presenting the Jacobi Medallion of the Alumni Association to Richard Marshak, M.D., 1972. a consulting radiologist. Consequently, Marshak saw hundreds of patients with gastrointestinal disorders. This experience, coupled with his amazing abilities as a teacher and a writer, would lead him and his colleagues to their groundbreaking work on the radiologic descriptions of regional enteritis and would inspire further studies on small bowel and colonic radiology. They would go on to describe the radiologic manifestations of sprue, malabsorption, protein-losing enteropathy, parasitic small bowel infection, vascular disease of the small bowel, lymphoma and other small bowel tumors, segmental colitis, toxic megacolon, and numerous other disorders. Marshak’s seminal work in this field during the 1950s and 1960s would help to “elevate the small bowel from an untouchable area in diagnostic radiology to a status equal in importance to the remainder of the G.I. tract.” Marshak’s remarkable scientific accomplishments and innate intellectual gifts produced a man with a powerful ego. Almost everyone, however, would agree that he was entitled to it. He was known as a radiological evangelist and an indefatigable lecturer, “who could literally caress the film and feel the diagnosis.” Unfortunately, this would turn out to be a necessary skill when the ravages of diabetes resulted in Marshak’s almost complete loss of vision. However, with the assistance of his long-time associate Daniel Maklansky, himself a gifted radiologist and teacher, Marshak continued to give lectures, describing in detail slides he could barely see. One of the unsung heroes of the Department was Mansho Khilnani, a superb diagnostic radiologist with a keen analytic mind. He attended medical school at Calcutta University and worked in refugee camps on the India-Pakistan border before coming to the United States in 1951. To review films with Khilnani was to get a lesson in anatomy, pathology, and x-ray diagnosis. An unassuming individual, Khilnani never received the national and international recognition due him. Yet, those who worked with him recognized him as a giant in the field of radiology. Maklansky has characterized Wolf, Marshak, and Khilnani as follows: “Although they had different personalities, they all shared a passion for excellence, a remarkable dedication to their work, and intellectual and mental energy to allow them to pursue their goals relentlessly until achieved.” John E. Moseley served Mount Sinai for four decades (1943—1983) as its first pediatric radiologist. Internationally recognized for his expertise in bone radiology, he was often requested by anthropologists to study x-rays of ancient bones. Invited to Peru for the opening of the Museum of Paleopathology, he had the opportunity to review x-rays of Peruvian mummies; his report became part of a conference on Human Paleopathology, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences in 1965. Moseley’s conferences with radiologists and pediatricians were amalgamated into the textbook Bone Changes in Hematologic Disorders.’ He also provided the original description of the “spinnaker sail” sign, indicating a pneumomediastinum in the newborn,’ and was a co-author of the first publication to depict the changes of the lateral spine in Trisomy21.20 A warm individual with a fine sense of humor, Moseley became involved in many of his community’s projects, including the Harlem Cancer Committee and the local Sickle Cell Anemia Association. For decades, Charles Newman and
Claude Bloch, associates in practice, were invaluable members of the Department.
Bloch edited “Radiologic Notes” in the Mount Sinai journals for a number of
years; Newman, who would endow a Professorial Chair in the Department, was
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