New Publication: Patients as Art
Author: Philip Mackowiak’s
Dr. Philip Mackowiak is Emeritus Professor of
Medicine and the Carolyn Frenkil and Selvin Passen History of Medicine
Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
He is a Master of the American College of Physicians
(ACP) and a former governor of the Maryland chapter of the ACP. He is a
graduate of Bucknell University (B.S. Biology), the University of
Maryland (M.D.) and the Johns Hopkins University (M.B.A.), who began his
career in academic medicine as an Epidemic Intelligence
Officer with the Centers for Disease Control in the early 70’s. In
1975, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical School in Dallas, where he rose to the rank of Professor of
Medicine before joining the faculty of the University
of Maryland School of Medicine in 1988.
Throughout his career, Dr. Mackowiak has been
recognized repeatedly for his work as a teacher/mentor. Twelve times
since 1993 the graduating class of the University of Maryland School of
Medicine has selected him as a Faculty Marshall,
four times as the Mace Bearer. In 1992, the graduating class honored
him further by inducting him into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society.
He received the Department of Medicine’s House Staff Teaching Award in
1993, the Student Council Faculty Award in 1994
and 1998, and the Maryland Chapter, ACP’s Theodore E. Woodward, MD
Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. In 2007, he was the faculty
member chosen to address the graduating class at the Medical School’s
bicentennial celebration, and in 2010, the Maryland
Chapter, ACP honored him by naming its annual student award the “Philip
A. Mackowiak, MD Award.” Dr. Mackowiak has published over 150
peer-reviewed articles, editorials and book chapters on a variety of
medical topics and is perhaps best known in the medical
community for his work on the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of
fever. His book, Fever. Basic Mechanisms and Management, now in its
second edition, is the first comprehensive monograph on the subject
since one published by Wunderlich in 1868.
For over two decades, Dr. Mackowiak has hosted an
internationally-acclaimed series of Historical Clinicopathological
Conferences in Baltimore. These have given rise to scores of
peer-reviewed articles, as well as a book titled Post Mortem.
Solving History’s Great Medical Mysteries. These works earned Dr.
Mackowiak the American College of Physicians’ 2010 Nicholas E. Davies
Memorial Scholar Award for Scholarly Activities in the Humanities and
History of Medicine and have established him as one
of today’s most accomplished medical historians. In 2013, Oxford
University Press published a sequel to Post Mortem, titled Diagnosing
Giants. Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed
the World. Dr. Mackowiak’s latest book, Patients as
Art. Forty Thousand Years of Medical History in Drawings, Paintings and
Sculpture is to be published in the fall of 2018 by Oxford University
Press.