Walton O. Schalick III, M.D., Ph.D.

DEPARTMENT OF Pediatrics
Keywords: disability, rehabilitation, history

The triptych of Dr. Schalick's research has three diverse panels. Clinically, he is interested in the application of rehabilitation principles to at-risk newborns, both in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and in the Newborn Follow-up Clinic. His historical research composes two panels. The first involves the characterization of marketplace and educational forces around one of the first university medical schools in the world, the University of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Many of our medical structures have their roots in the Middle Ages. Consequently, understanding how those structures formed and met early challenges can help us understand the challenges medicine faces today. The final panel of the triptych puts the historical and the clinical together in a comparative study of children with disabilities in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This ongoing investigation should help us understand the social nature of disabilities.