Samuel B. Guze, MD 18 October 1923-19 July 2000
✍ Scribed by Cloninger, C. Robert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 105
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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✦ Synopsis
from a fall complicated by polycythemia vera, a bone marrow disease. He was 76 and had been actively teaching up to the time of his final illness (Fig. 1).
Dr. Guze (pronounced goo-ZAY) was one of a few American psychiatrists who pioneered the validation of criteria for diagnosis of psychiatric disorders by means of follow-up and family studies beginning in the 1960s. He carried out family and adoption studies of psychiatric disorders in association with Eli Robins , George Winokur (1925-96), Don Goodwin (1931-99), and Seymour Kety (1916-2000). He also encouraged the entry of others into psychiatric genetics, including Theodore Reich, John Rice, Brian Suarez, and myself. His leadership and support were crucial in making the psychiatry department at Washington University a leader in quantitative and molecular genetic research on psychiatric disorders.