Christopher J. Boes Explained

Education:
Known For:President of the American Osler Society (2022–2023)
Profession:Physician
Field:Neurology
Work Institutions:Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Specialism:Headache, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias
Research Field:
  • Neurology
  • History of medicine
  • History of education at the Mayo Clinic
Prizes:

Christopher J. Boes is an American neurologist and historian of medicine. He holds the titles of professor of neurology, professor of history of medicine, director of the W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and since 2022 is the Mayo Clinic Designated Institutional Official (DIO). His research focuses on the management of headache, including migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias. His work in the field of history of medicine includes research on Sir William Gowers, Sir William Osler, Bayard Taylor Horton, Mary Broadfoot Walker, Betty Clements and Harry Lee Parker.

Boes was president of the American Osler Society (AOS) for 2022–23.

Early life and education

Christopher Boes is from Elgin, Nebraska.[1] One of six children, his father was Gene Boes who ran a farming cooperative, and his mother is Mary Jane.[1] As a child he worked as a paperboy delivering the Omaha World-Herald.[1]

Boes earned his bachelor's degree from Creighton University, and his Doctor of Medicine, with high distinction, from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1996.[2] Following his internship at Nebraska, he completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, before being granted a fellowship with the Headache Group at the Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, in Queen Square, London.[1] [2]

Career

Boes holds the title of professor of neurology and professor of history of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.[2] [3] His research focuses on the management of headache, including migraine and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.[2] In that field he has analysed the strengths and weakness of evidence for oral magnesium supplementation in the treatment of migraine.[4] [5]

Between 2005 and 2013 he was Neurology Residency Program Director at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.[6] In a personal note regarding student applications to neurology, he reported that after the death of neurologist Oliver Sacks, it became less common for students to mention Sacks in their neurology resident application forms.[7]

In 2022 he was appointed the Mayo Clinic Designated Institutional Official (DIO).[2]

History of medicine

In his research on history of medicine, Boes has focused on Sir William Gowers, Sir William Osler, Bayard Taylor Horton, Mary Broadfoot Walker, Harry Lee Parker,[2] and Betty Clements.[8]

In 2002 he co-authored a detailed account of Wilfred Harris' classification of some of the first reports of cluster headache; what Harris termed 'migrainous neuralgia'.[9] [10] His 2005 paper "Chronic migraine and medication-overuse headache through the ages" noted that ergotamine-misuse headache was reported before Peters and Horton's 1951 clear documentation of it.[11] [12] In the journal Brain in 2010, he co-authored "A history of non-drug treatment of headache, particularly migraine".[13] [14] [15]

In 2014 Boes was appointed director of the W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine, at the Mayo Clinic.[2] [16] His 2015 paper “The founding of the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education” highlighted the contribution of Mayo Clinic to American graduate medical education.[2] [17] In his 2016 article "Gowers and Osler: good friends 'all through'", he identified that Osler probably based the neurology parts of his 1892 medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Medicine, on Gowers' neurology manual, first published in 1886.[18] [19]

Between 2015 and 2017 he chaired the history of neurology section of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).[2] He was president of the American Osler Society for 2022–23, having been first elected there in 2010.[20]

Awards

Boes earned the Henry W. Woltman Award in 2000.[21] He was awarded the AAN's Residency-Fellowship Program Director Recognition Award in 2013.[22] In both 2014 and 2017 he won the Lawrence C. McHenry Award for excellence in history of neurology research from the AAN.[2] [23]

Selected publications

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. A Message from the President: My teachers . The Oslerian . June 2022 . 23 . 1 . 1–3 .
  2. Web site: Christopher J. Boes, M.D. . Mayo Clinic . June 9, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230609041825/https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/boes-christopher-j-m-d/bio-00027226 . June 9, 2023 . en.
  3. Book: Blistein . David . Burns . Ken . The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science . 2018 . Rosetta Books . 132 . 978-0-7953-5168-6 . https://books.google.com/books?id=lysAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT132 . en . 3. The early years.
  4. Book: Beattie . B. Lynn . Michel . Jean-Pierre . Beattie . B. Lynn . Martin . Finbarr C. . Walston . Jeremy D. . Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine . 2018 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-870159-0 . 475 . 3rd . https://books.google.com/books?id=n_U-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA475 . en . 62. Nutrition and metabolism.
  5. Ramachanderan . Raghavendra . Schramm . Stefan . Schaefer . Bernd . Migraine drugs . ChemTexts . April 3, 2023 . 9 . 2 . 6 . 10.1007/s40828-023-00178-5 . 257903135 . en . 2199-3793. 20.500.11850/608924 . free .
  6. Boes . Christopher J. . Burkholder . David B. . Coon . Elizabeth A. . Cutsforth-Gregory . Jeremy K. . Klaas . James P. . Jones . Lyell K. . Reciprocal Development and Progressive Responsibility: The History of the Mayo Clinic Neurology Residency . Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes . October 2020 . 4 . 5 . 478–498 . 10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2020.06.006 . 33083697 . 7557208 .
  7. Book: Wijdicks . Eelco F. M. . Neurocinema—The Sequel: A History of Neurology on Screen . 2022 . CRC Press . 978-1-000-54916-4 . https://books.google.com/books?id=soZjEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT58 . en . 3. The neurologist in film. 55–58.
  8. Coon . Elizabeth Anne . Smith . Kelsey M. . Boes . Christopher J.. Christopher J. Boes . Dr. Betty Clements: Breaking Gender Barriers in the Air Force and Neurology . Neurology . May 17, 2022 . 98 . 20 . 841–846 . 10.1212/WNL.0000000000200322 . 35292557 . 247475183 . 1526-632X. subscription.
  9. Book: Eadie . Mervyn J. . Headache: Through the Centuries . 2012 . Oxford University Press, USA . 978-0-19-986097-5 . 197–226 . https://books.google.com/books?id=GinU68WnlBIC&pg=PA205 . en . 7. The trigeminal autonomic cephalagias.
  10. Boes . C. J. . Capobianco . D. J. . Matharu . M. S. . Goadsby . P. J. . Wilfred Harris' early description of cluster headache . Cephalalgia: An International Journal of Headache . May 2002 . 22 . 4 . 320–326 . 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2002.00360.x . 12100097 . 25747361 . 0333-1024.
  11. Book: Eadie . Mervyn J. . Headache: Through the Centuries . 2012 . Oxford University Press, USA . 978-0-19-986097-5 . 197 . https://books.google.com/books?id=GinU68WnlBIC&pg=PA109. en . 4. Migraine: Clinical phenomenon.
  12. Fischer . MA . Jan . A . Medication-Overuse Headache. . StatPearls . January 2023 . 30844177 . en.
  13. Koehler . P. J. . Boes . C. J. . A history of non-drug treatment in headache, particularly migraine . Brain . August 1, 2010 . 133 . 8 . 2489–2500 . 10.1093/brain/awq170 . 20639545 .
  14. Book: Hudspeth . Robert N. . Witherall . Elizabeth Hall . Xie . Lihong . The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856 . 2018 . Princeton University Press . Princeton, New Jersey . 978-0-691-17058-9 . https://books.google.com/books?id=rW6YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 . en . Letters 1849-1856.
  15. Book: Eadie . Mervyn J. . Headache: Through the Centuries . 2012 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-986098-2 . 196 . https://books.google.com/books?id=MEJpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 . en. 6. The treatment of migraine.
  16. Web site: Christopherson . Emily . LibGuides: W. Bruce Fye Center For the History of Medicine: Home . libraryguides.mayo.edu . June 10, 2023 . en.
  17. Barr . Justin . July 1, 2018 . The Education of American Surgeons and the Rise of Surgical Residencies, 1930-1960 . Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences . 73 . 3 . 274–302 . 10.1093/jhmas/jrx058 . 29408971 . 1468-4373 . highlights the oft-ignored but seminal importance of the Mayo Clinic in the history of graduate medical education in this country.. free .
  18. Weatherall . MW . From "Transient Hemiopsia" to Migraine Aura. . Vision (Basel) . November 5, 2021 . 5 . 4 . 54 . 10.3390/vision5040054 . 34842837 . 8628937 . free .
  19. Book: Scott . Ann . Eadie . Mervyn . Lees . Andrew . William Richard Gowers 1845-1915: Exploring the Victorian Brain . 2012 . OUP Oxford . 978-0-19-163702-5 . 10 . en.
  20. November 2022 . A Message from the President . The Oslerian . 23 . 3 . 1–5.
  21. Web site: Christopher J. Boes, M.D. . Mayo Clinic . June 15, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230615134127/https://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/boes-christopher-j-m-d/bio-20053132 . June 15, 2023 . en.
  22. Web site: Recognition Awards . www.aan.com . June 13, 2023 . en.
  23. Web site: Awards History . www.aan.com . June 18, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230618171140/https://www.aan.com/research/awards-history . June 18, 2023 . en.

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