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Dr Michael Johnston, MD: [1946 - 2022]

Michael V. Johnston, MD, was a Research Scientist, Director of the Neuroscience Laboratory, Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, former Chief Medical Officer, Executive Vice President at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, two-term executive board member of the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA), passed away on July 30, 2022. He was a brilliant academician and researcher. His seminal work on the role of glutamate and excitotoxicity in hypoxic-ischaemic injury and its effects on the developing brain is well known internationally. He collaborated with clinicians and researchers and continued to treat patients with complex Neurological Disorders. He and his group performed clinical and basic laboratory research focused on developing therapies to reduce brain injury in infants and children and promote recovery by enhancing brain plasticity. His laboratory was one of the first to describe the mechanisms through which the neurotransmitter glutamate triggers brain injury from lack of oxygen, trauma, and other insults.

Awards and Achievements:
The Frank Ford Lecture Award from the ICNA in 2016.
The Blum/ Moser Endowed Chair for Paediatric Neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
The Bernard Sachs Award from the Child Neurology Society.

It is a great honor for the ICNA to host the entire award lecture at the 18th International Child Neurology Congress (ICNC2024), Cape Town, South Africa, in the name of Dr. Michael Johnston, whose service to the ICNA and the world of Paediatric Neurology will be admired forever! The Michael Johnston Award is sponsored by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, United States, where he and his friend and colleague, Dr. Gary Goldstein, spearheaded for 31 years. The institution is known for its cutting-edge research and for providing state-of-the-art management to children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

He had qualities of the head and heart both!

Mike will be missed by the ICNA community and Paediatric Neurologists worldwide.

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Published: 18 June 2024

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The International Child Neurology Association (ICNA) was founded to provide a global forum for neurologists dedicated to the care of children with neurological conditions. The ICNA Executive Board members current and past are listed below. 

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John Stobo Prichard was born in Barry, Wales, and trained in England and the United States, but spent most of his medical career in Canada. His father, Thomas Preece Prichard, was a solicitor. His mother was Ethel Jane Frazer Andrew. John Prichard was educated at Clifton Preparatory School, Clifton College and Cambridge University, where he took his MA and MB BChir, completing his medical undergraduate training at the London Hospital which he left to join the RAMC in 1939. In the same year he married Joan Suzanne Webber, daughter of Sir Robert John Webber. Prichard served in England, and later with the Eighth Army in Africa and Europe. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. After demobilization, he trained at the National Hospital, Queen Square, and in 1949 left England to spend a year in Boston at the Massachusetts General Hospital on a British travelling fellowship.

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Dr Sheila Wallace was the Director of the Children's Centre, where she worked in cooperation with the Community Health Service, Neonatologists, an Orthopaedic Surgeon, and the Professor of Mental Handicap. She was on the Medical Advisory Committee of the British Epilepsy Association from 1974 – 1984, on the British Epilepsy Research Foundation Awards Committee from 1986, Treasurer of the BPNA from 1984 – 1986, she served on the Committee on the Safety of Medicines and the MRC's Committee on the Development of Vaccines and Immunisation procedures. From 1990, she was a board member of the International Child Neurology Association (ICNA), and from 1999–2001, the European Paediatric Neurology Association (EPNS); she sat on the Editorial boards of MacKeith Press and the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. Among all this, she kept up a continual flow of academic work, most evident in her publications but including lecturing at home and abroad, particularly in places where the need was most prominent. She alone built Paediatric Neurology in South Wales with the same deep determination and carried its influence across Europe and the World. Rowland Isaac, her husband, to whom she was loyally devoted, died in 1993.