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Victor Almon McKusick by Herbert E. Abrams; oil on canvas, 41.5 by 35.5 inches, 1990. |
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Collection Summary Creator Dates Institutional Affiliation(s) Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health Date Range of Collection Volume of Collection |
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Biography Victor Almon McKusick was born in Parkman, Maine. He attended Tufts University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1946. After he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine in 1946 as a cardiologist, McKusick began studying Marfan syndrome and became interested in the field of medical genetics. He continued to make contributions to cardiology, such as adapting sound spectroscopy for analysis of heart sounds and publishing a unique catalog of heart sounds and murmurs in 1958. McKusick has played a large part in introducing the field of medical genetics into the mainstream of academic medicine. He studied the whole range of inherited human disorders, then concentrated on mapping the location of genes on chromosomes and relating gene location to human disease. In 1966, he published the first edition of Mendelian Inheritance in Man (known as OMIM in its present internet version), the definitive source of information on human genes and genetic disorders. He was founding president of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) in 1988, an international group whose goal is to promote mapping and sequencing of the entire human genome. In 1997, McKusick received the Albert Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. |
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Scope and Content The Victor Almon McKusick Collection spans his entire career at Johns Hopkins. It documents his various activities as clinician, researcher, teacher, and administrator. The collection includes professional correspondence, research data, photographs, lecture notes, financial records, student records, reprints, manuscripts, audio tapes, committee minutes, patient records, slides, diplomas, and awards. Also included are family papers, including biographical information, undergraduate notes, and transcripts of interviews with McKusick and family members.
Policy on Access and Use This collection may contain some restricted records. Materials pertaining to patients, students, employees, and human research subjects, as well as unprocessed collections and recent administrative records, carry restrictions on access. For more information about the policies and procedures for access, see Policy on Access and Use. Permissions and Credits When citing material from this collection, credit The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. For permission to reproduce images, contact the holder of the copyright. For permissions contact: Copyright © 1999 The copyright to the entire content of this guide, including text, image source files, HTML and SGML source codes, and presentation, is owned by The Johns Hopkins Health System and The Johns Hopkins University. All rights reserved. |
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