Orville Bailey Helped Launch Neuropathology As Medical Field:
Dr. Orville Taylor Bailey, among a handful of neuropathologists who helped establish that medical field as a subspecialty, died Monday in St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. A resident of the North Side, he was 89.
When Dr. Bailey began pathology training in the 1930s, there were only a few doctors studying diseases of the nervous system. But over the next several decades, he helped develop neuropathology, training scores of doctors across the country and conducting significant research in the field.
"He was one of the pioneers in neuropathology," said Dr. George Cybulski, an associate professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School who was a medical student of Dr. Bailey's at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "He was a brilliant man. I think what attracted him to this field was the detective work involved in neuropathology, where you're trying to find out what causes diseases of the brain."
He entered Syracuse University at age 15 and graduated from medical school at 23. He studied for three years as a member of Harvard's elite Society of Fellows and was an associate and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He started a new laboratory specifically for neuropathology at Indiana University before coming to Chicago in 1959. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, he trained neurologists and neurosurgeons and was also affiliated with Cook County Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
When NASA was preparing to send people to space for the first time, Dr. Bailey conducted experiments with mice to ensure there were no damaging effects on the central nervous system.
Dr. Bailey retired from the University of Illinois in 1977, then took a position at Rush Medical College, where he trained residents in neurology and neurosurgery until 1985.
There are no immediate survivors.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 1035 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. A chapel service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
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Dr. Orville Taylor Bailey, among a handful of neuropathologists who helped establish that medical field as a subspecialty, died Monday in St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. A resident of the North Side, he was 89.
When Dr. Bailey began pathology training in the 1930s, there were only a few doctors studying diseases of the nervous system. But over the next several decades, he helped develop neuropathology, training scores of doctors across the country and conducting significant research in the field.
"He was one of the pioneers in neuropathology," said Dr. George Cybulski, an associate professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School who was a medical student of Dr. Bailey's at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "He was a brilliant man. I think what attracted him to this field was the detective work involved in neuropathology, where you're trying to find out what causes diseases of the brain."
He entered Syracuse University at age 15 and graduated from medical school at 23. He studied for three years as a member of Harvard's elite Society of Fellows and was an associate and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He started a new laboratory specifically for neuropathology at Indiana University before coming to Chicago in 1959. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, he trained neurologists and neurosurgeons and was also affiliated with Cook County Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
When NASA was preparing to send people to space for the first time, Dr. Bailey conducted experiments with mice to ensure there were no damaging effects on the central nervous system.
Dr. Bailey retired from the University of Illinois in 1977, then took a position at Rush Medical College, where he trained residents in neurology and neurosurgery until 1985.
There are no immediate survivors.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 1035 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. A chapel service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
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Orville Bailey Helped Launch Neuropathology As Medical Field:
Dr. Orville Taylor Bailey, among a handful of neuropathologists who helped establish that medical field as a subspecialty, died Monday in St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. A resident of the North Side, he was 89.
When Dr. Bailey began pathology training in the 1930s, there were only a few doctors studying diseases of the nervous system. But over the next several decades, he helped develop neuropathology, training scores of doctors across the country and conducting significant research in the field.
"He was one of the pioneers in neuropathology," said Dr. George Cybulski, an associate professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School who was a medical student of Dr. Bailey's at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "He was a brilliant man. I think what attracted him to this field was the detective work involved in neuropathology, where you're trying to find out what causes diseases of the brain."
He entered Syracuse University at age 15 and graduated from medical school at 23. He studied for three years as a member of Harvard's elite Society of Fellows and was an associate and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He started a new laboratory specifically for neuropathology at Indiana University before coming to Chicago in 1959. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, he trained neurologists and neurosurgeons and was also affiliated with Cook County Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
When NASA was preparing to send people to space for the first time, Dr. Bailey conducted experiments with mice to ensure there were no damaging effects on the central nervous system.
Dr. Bailey retired from the University of Illinois in 1977, then took a position at Rush Medical College, where he trained residents in neurology and neurosurgery until 1985.
There are no immediate survivors.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 1035 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. A chapel service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
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Dr. Orville Taylor Bailey, among a handful of neuropathologists who helped establish that medical field as a subspecialty, died Monday in St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. A resident of the North Side, he was 89.
When Dr. Bailey began pathology training in the 1930s, there were only a few doctors studying diseases of the nervous system. But over the next several decades, he helped develop neuropathology, training scores of doctors across the country and conducting significant research in the field.
"He was one of the pioneers in neuropathology," said Dr. George Cybulski, an associate professor of neurosurgery at Northwestern University Medical School who was a medical student of Dr. Bailey's at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "He was a brilliant man. I think what attracted him to this field was the detective work involved in neuropathology, where you're trying to find out what causes diseases of the brain."
He entered Syracuse University at age 15 and graduated from medical school at 23. He studied for three years as a member of Harvard's elite Society of Fellows and was an associate and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He started a new laboratory specifically for neuropathology at Indiana University before coming to Chicago in 1959. At the University of Illinois at Chicago, he trained neurologists and neurosurgeons and was also affiliated with Cook County Hospital, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
When NASA was preparing to send people to space for the first time, Dr. Bailey conducted experiments with mice to ensure there were no damaging effects on the central nervous system.
Dr. Bailey retired from the University of Illinois in 1977, then took a position at Rush Medical College, where he trained residents in neurology and neurosurgery until 1985.
There are no immediate survivors.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 1035 N. Dearborn St., Chicago. A chapel service will be held at 7 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
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