Dr. Sidney Carter Dies at 92; Pediatric Neurology Pioneer
NY Times
Dr. Sidney Carter, a Columbia University neurologist and clinician who helped to found and define the field of pediatric neurology in the 1950’s, died on Jan. 16 in a nursing home in Mashpee, Mass., on Cape Cod. He was 92.
He had had a series of strokes, his family said.
At a time when children with epilepsy and other neurological disorders were primarily treated by pediatricians, Dr. Carter set out to establish training programs and certifications for neurologists to diagnose and treat diseases among children. After arriving at Columbia as an instructor in neurology in 1947, he observed that specialists for children were uncommon at any hospital.
Neurology of infancy and childhood
