Gregory Stores (1938 -2022)

Gregory Stores, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry at the University of Oxford, who contributed greatly to the understanding of epilepsy and sleep disorders, passed away on 21^st December 2022.

Born in 1938 and raised in Stockport by parents William and Marion, Greg went to school at St Bede’s College where he became Head Boy and spent many happy hours of his youth in Stockport Library. His first degree was in Psychology, after which he went on to study Medicine at the University of Manchester. He not only excelled in his studies but also had a passion for athletics, competing in throwing events including the hammer up to County, Northern Counties and British Universities representative levels. After graduating in 1967 he worked in various hospitals across the North of England before moving to Oxford. Greg completed a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University Department of Neurology in 1974, and became a Consultant in 1976, working at the Park Hospital in Headington in both sleep disorder and epilepsy services for patients of all ages referred from throughout the United Kingdom, and was Director for the Oxford Regional Paediatric EEG Service. During this period his research grant total was in the region of £1m principally in support of studies in children’s sleep disorders. One of his most significant contributions to the diagnosis of childhood epilepsy was his introduction of ambulatory EEG in real life settings. This technique has become the worldwide standard for research and clinical investigation of epilepsy and sleep disorders in patients of all ages.

He was elected as Fellow of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1981) and the Royal College of Physicians (1983). He became Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry and Fellow of Linacre College at the University of Oxford in 1999 due to his extensive research and publications in epilepsy and sleep disorders. Greg taught undergraduate and postgraduate groups in medicine and allied disciplines. He both organised and was invited to be a keynote speaker at conferences around the world due to his international reputation and significant contribution in the field. He also made national and international television and radio appearances and press contributions. He authored many highly cited academic journal articles, and was an author and editor of several books including “A Clinical Guide to Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents” and “Sleep and its Disorders in Children and Adolescents with a Neurodevelopmental Disorder”, and wrote chapters in many more.

After retiring from clinical work, Greg continued to publish and was a Visiting Lecturer at Warwick Medical School and University College London’s Institute of Child Health. He completed a Postgraduate Certificate in History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University and enjoyed often presenting at local history groups on such topics as “Maladies of Medieval Monks”, “The History and Folklore of European Witchcraft and Attempts to Combat its Influence” and “Charles Dickens as Social Reformer and Medical Observer”. Having lived in Dorchester on Thames for almost 40 years he had a fond relationship with the Abbey where he was a steward, regularly taking visiting groups on historical tours of the building. Greg has always had an interest in 17^th century and earlier oak furniture, carvings and related items and had an eye for quality pieces as evidenced by his fine collection.

He will be greatly missed by his wife, Christina, four children, Adrian, Rebecca, Rachel and Alasdair, and four grandchildren, Beth, Abby, Kaya and Erin.

Obituary written by Dr Rachel Stores

Christian Guilleminault (1938-2019)

CAROLE MARCUS

Dear Pediatric Sleep Community:

It is with great sadness that I write to share the heartbreaking news that Carole L. Marcus, Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), died Sunday afternoon after a brief hospitalization.

Carole was a remarkable clinician, clinical investigator, and educator who leaves behind legions of friends, colleagues, students, and mentees at CHOP, the University of Pennsylvania, and throughout the ATS both nationally and internationally. She improved the lives of countless patients through her unique clinical expertise and her high impact patient-oriented research. She served as Director of the CHOP Sleep Center and the CHOP Clinical and Translational Research Center/Center for Human Phenomic Science and was Associate Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Carole grew up in South Africa and obtained her medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. She completed residency training at SUNY Brooklyn and fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. She was a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University from 1991 to 2003 before being recruited to CHOP.

Carole was recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in sleep medicine. She had a remarkable research career that was always evolving. She performed detailed physiological studies on the pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), describing the relative roles of anatomy and neuromotor control of the upper airway from infancy to adolescence. In recent years she performed multi-center clinical trials with colleagues across the country studying neurobehavioral effects of OSA and culminating in a recent trial of adenotonsillectomy vs watchful waiting in the treatment of pediatric OSA. She held virtually every leadership position in pediatric sleep medicine at some point during her abbreviated career and received numerous awards, including the William C. Dement Academic Achievement Award in Sleep Medicine. She was an active participant in the ATS serving in many roles in the SRN assembly including on both Planning and Program Committees. Her colleagues and mentees will remember her as a tireless advocate for the interdisciplinary approach to the care of children with sleep disorders.

She was surrounded by family at the time of her premature death and died very peacefully. Please keep Carole and her family in your thoughts – we will all miss her greatly.

Sincerely,

David Gozal, MD, MBA

AVI SADEH