Dewey K. Ziegler, MD (1920-2012)

Dewey K. Ziegler led the Section of Neurology at the University of Kansas from 1966 until it became the Department of Neurology in 1974, when he became the founding Chairman, serving until 1985. He became Professor Emeritus in 1990. He was among the neurologists who established the field as an independent field, rather than a subsidiary of either internal medicine or psychiatry. Indeed, he and his generation of neurologists who trained in New York and Boston then spanned across the nation to create departments of neurology from coast to coast. He was one of the first specialists in headache neurology and was an inspirational leader as physician, neurologist, and world citizen.