JOHN MACLEOD MEMORIAL AWARD

Moritz Heinrich Romberg (11 November 1795 – 16 June 1873) was a German physician and neurologist, born in Meiningen, who published his classic textbook in sections between 1840 and 1846; Edward Henry Sieveking translated it into English in 1853. His nephew was Eduard Heinrich Henoch, who was known for describing Henoch–Schönlein purpura.

He described what is now universally recognised as "Romberg's sign" in his original account of tabes dorsalis (a disease caused by syphilis damaging the back of the spinal cord). He related early symptoms as: "The feet feel numbed in standing, walking or lying down, and the patient has the sensation as if they were covered in fur; the resistance of the ground is not felt."

He was one of a tiny number of truly innovative neurologists in Europe who in the 1820-50 period introduced order and clinical observation and deduction into what was then an elementary discipline. He is credited with having been "the first clinical neurologist"

According to Pearce, Romberg acquired much of the wisdom and attitudes prevailing in English medicine when in 1820 he translated into German, Andrew Marshall's (1742–1813) The Morbid Anatomy of the Brain and Charles Bell’s The Nervous System of the Human Body. He revolutionised European neurology, publishing his Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen: the first systematic textbook in neurology. Romberg’s contribution to neurology, and his establishing tabes dorsalis as a distinctive disease were of crucial importance. Romberg’s sign, once synonymous with tabes dorsalis, became recognised as common to all proprioceptive disorders of the legs. His several major clinical contributions included: a classic description of achondroplasia (on which he wrote his graduation thesis entitled "Congenital rickets" in 1817), progressive facial hemiatrophy, and an unmistakable description of the pupils in tertiary syphilis before E.J. Remak and Argyll Robertson.

We Would like to dedicate this 5th International Congress on Neurology and Therapeutics - 2023 after his name

Eligibility

• Junior Researcher e.g. Students, Phd Scholar, Research Scholar are the focus of this event.
• The topic must fit into scientific sessions of the conference.
• Each individual participant is allowed to submit only one paper (as first author or co-author).
• All authors should have senior position or faculty position.
• Participants should be below the age of 30 years.
• All submissions must be in English.
• Actively distribute information and promote the benefits of education and career matters.

Criteria for Selection

• Showcase your research through oral presentations and its impact to the Panel Member.
• Impact of the Research Work.
• Importance of the Research work to the socity.
• New Innovation in the Research Work

Awards & Rewards

• The Best Researcher will be awarded with Moritz Heinrich Memorial Award at the end of the conference

For Nomination Kindly write a mail to the Conference Secretariat at [email protected] and kindly attached the below mentioned documents..