Background
Meduna, Ladislas Joseph was born on March 27, 1896 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Francis M. and Gisela (Eissler) Meduna.
Meduna, Ladislas Joseph was born on March 27, 1896 in Budapest, Hungary. Son of Francis M. and Gisela (Eissler) Meduna.
Doctor of Medicine, Royal University of Science, Budapest, Hungary, 1921.
Assistant professor, Budapest Interacad. Institute Brain Research, 1924-1927;
associate professor, U. Clinic for Mental and Nervous Diseases, 1927-1933;
director neuro-histology laboratory, head department male services, Leopold Field Eastern State Hospital for Insane, Budapest, 1933-1934, 34-38;
head department male services, Nagel Field Eastern State Hospital, 1938-1939;
associate professor psychiatry and neurology, Loyola University, Chicago, 1939-1943;
associate professor psychiatry, University of Illinois, Neuropsychiat. Institute, Chicago, 1943-1950;
professor, University of Illinois, Neuropsychiat.
Institute, Chicago, 1950-1992. Consultant psychiatry state Department of Public Welfare, Illinois, 1954-1992. Honorary staff member Ridgeway Hospital, Chicago.
Honorary member Royal Medico-Psychological Association (London), Sociedade Medicina de Pernambuco, Sociedad Brazileira, Asssociacao Paulists, Roman Academy Medicine, Sociedade Cubana de Nurol. y Psiquiatria, Electro-Shock Research Association, Blue Key. Member Chicago Neurological Society of America Medieval Academy, Illinois Chicago Med Societies, Milwaukee Neuropsychiat. Society, American Psychiatric Association, New York Academy of Sciences, American Medical Association, American Society Medical Psychiatry (past president), Society Biological Psychiatry (past president), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Blue Key.
Married Clara Varga, 1934.