Virtual lecture: Prof Christopher Boes: William Gowers of London: Osler's Neurology Teacher & Friend

Professor Christopher Boes

at Mayo Clinic

The research efforts of Christopher J. Boes, M.D., focus on the history of neurology and medicine, the history of Mayo Clinic graduate medical education, and the diagnosis and treatment of headache disorders. He analyzes primary sources to answer questions in the history of neurology and medicine, situating the topic in time and place.

Dr. Boes is a physician-historian who conducts archival research on the history of neurology and medicine, mining primary source materials and concentrating on the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a special focus on Drs. William Gowers, William Osler, Bayard Horton, Mary Walker and Harry Lee Parker.