In Memoriam: Dr Martin S Schwartz MD (Baltimore) FRCP (London) 1941 –2023

Martin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into a Jewish family with professional connections in medicine and music. His father was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, and a violinist in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Martin entered the University of Maryland School of Medicine at the early age of 17 years, where he was much influenced by the neurologist and neurophysiologist Dr Richard F Mayer (1929 –2016). Dick Mayer, after medical school in Buffalo NY, had trained in Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and then at Queen Square, London, before his lifelong appointment in Baltimore.
Source: Neuromuscular Disorders - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Obituary Source Type: research