Dr.Lewin
was born in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1935, and grew up in
Alexandria, Egypt.
From 1940 to 1953 Dr.Lewin attended Victoria College in Alexandria, the foremost
British public school in the Middle East.
Dr.
Lewin graduated from St.Mary’s Hospital Medical
School, University of London, England, in 1959.
He is a staff physician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Assistant
Professor in Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and also in private practice.In
addition to clinical practice Dr.Lewin is involved in medical research, and
has published many scientific papers, particularly on his pioneering work with
infectious proteins causing neurodegenerative disease in animals (Scrapie and
BSE) and humans (Kuru,Creutzfeld-Jakob).
In 1976 Dr.Lewin organized the first overseas exhibition
of CONTEMPORARY WOODLAND NATIVE INDIAN ART in Europe.
Dr. Lewin met most of the Native artists who pioneered
this art movement in the Sioux Lookout Zone of Northwestern Ontario, while
being associated as a visiting Paediatrician to the Zone’s Indian and
Northern Affairs hospital since 1970.
Since
1960 Dr.Lewin has been associated with the Canadian Forces
Medical Services. From 1960 to 1963 he was in the Royal
Canadian Army medical Corps, as a regular Medical Officer
serving in Canada and Germany. He then joined the Militia,
and as Area Surgeon, Land Forces Central Area since may
1982 he was the Senior Reserve Medical Officer (Colonel)
in Ontario. After 31 years of service with the military
Dr.Lewin retired at the end of August 1991. Past President,
Defence Medical Association of Canada 1978-1979.
Since
1966 Dr. Lewin has been actively involved in Medical
Archeology having pioneered electron microscopy and the
latest imaging techniques in this field. He is a founding
member of the international PALEOPATHOLOGY ASSOCIATION
and a fellow of the EXPLORERS CLUB, USA.
Dr.
Lewin was the LLOYD MORGAN LECTURER at the centennial
meeting of the Alumni Association the Hospital for Sick
Children in Toronto, June 1975, and invited speaker ,
Exploration Lecture Series, Explorers Club, New York
March 1987.In March 1990, he gave the 1990 HISTORY OF
MEDICINE Lecture at Memorial University in St.John, Newfoundland.
In 1994 was the WELLMARK lecturer, at the annual meeting
of the Canadian association of clinical microbiologists
and infectious disease (CACMID) in Montreal, and in 1997
was the H.GARFIELD KELLY visiting lecturer at the Medical
Faculty of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
In June 1997 was the Annual DR.PERCY WILLIAMS Lecturer
of the Paediatric section of the Academy of Medicine
in Hamilton,Ontario. Received a 1998 WILLIAM B. SPAULDING
Cerificate Award from theCanadian Hannah Institute for
the History of Medicine.
In
June 1974 he was appointed the Honorary Physician to
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, during her Toronto
visit.
He
has received the Canadian Decoration with Clasp, the
Order of St.John of Jerusalem (Serving Brother ) on October
1985 and the Special Services Medal with NATO bar in
1994. In December 1991 Dr.Lewin received the Canadian
Order of Military Merit, in the rank of Officer (O.M.M.).
------------------------------ DATE OF BIRTH: August 22, 1935 (Jerusalem)
NATIONALITY: Canadian
CHILDREN:
Michelle Elizabeth Ann,
Martin David
EDUCATION:
VICTORIA COLLEGE, ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT (1940-1953)
Initiated
the 80th Anniversary Celebration and reunion of Victoria
College ( Alexandria ), and held during September
1983 in Alexandria, Egypt.
ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (1953-1959)
Exchange in Surgery to University of Pittsburgh, USA (June-September,
1957)
UNIVERSITY HONOURS: St. Mary's Hospital Prize: Biology
1954
: Anatomy 1955-1956
Certificates of Merit: Histology 1955
: Senior Pathology and Bacteriology 1958
: Psychological Medicine 1959
DEGREES:
M. B. , B. S. University of London (England) 1959
M. R.C.S.
(England) ,L. R. C. P. (London) Conjoint Board 195 9
L. M. C. C . Canada July 1965
M.Sc.(Pathology), University of -Toronto,May 1968
M. D.,University of London (Eng.) Sept 1968
C.R. C. P. (C),Paediatrics, December 1969
F.R. C. P. (C) Paediatrics, March 1970 (Fellow Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada)
REGISTERED:
1) General Medical Council: England, April
1960
2) College of Physicians and Surgeons: Newfoundland, 1960
3)College of Physicians and Surgeons: Ontario, July, 1965
APPOINTMENTS:
a) House Surgeon and Casualty Officer-St. Andrew's Hospital,
Billericay, Essex, England. (June-December 1959)
b) House Physician-Paddington Green Children's Hospital,
St. Mary's Hospital Group, London, Dr. Stapleton (December, 1959-June, 1960)
c) Resident Medical Officer, Chest Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital, London.
(September 1963-June 1964) Dr. Touissaint
d) Assistant Resident, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (July 1964-July
1965)
e) Medical Research Council of Canada, Research Fellow,
Banting Institute, Toronto (July 1965-July 1968)
f) Resident, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (July
1968-July 1969)
g) Staff Physician, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto,
July 1970-
h)
Courtesy Staff-. Mount Sinai Hospital,
Women's College Hospital,
Toronto General Hospital,
Wellesley Hospital
i) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Toronto, July 1973-
j)
Visiting Consultant Physician:
Sioux Lookout Indian Hospital, Sioux Lookout, Northern
Ontario, 1971-1982
k) Board of Governors, Canadian Academy of Physician Assistants
2000-
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS:
1) Commissioned Medical Officer (Capt.) Royal Canadian Medical Corps (Aug.60-Oct.63)
a) R. M. 0. to 1st Can. Regt. , Ipperwash, Ontario (1960-1961)
b) Surgical Service, British Military Hospital, Iserlohn,
Germany (1961-1962)
c) Medical Officer in Command of Dependent's Clinic, Soest,
Germany (1962-1963)
2) Canadian Armed Forces: Reserve Element
a) Medical Officer since August 1964
b) Commanding Officer, Medical Section, Toronto Service Batallion and District
c) Surgeon, Toronto District (June 1969-March 1974)
d) Area Surgeon,Land Forces Central Command (May1982-Sept.1991)
Retired Sept.1991
MEMBER
OF:
1) Ontario and Canadian Medical Association
2) Defence Medical Association of Canada, Past President Central Ontario Branch
1971-1973.
3) Defence Medical Association of Canada, Past National President, November,1977
to November, 1978. Council Member November 1978-
4) Royal Candian Military Institute
5) Royal Canadian Regiment Association
6) Founding member of the International Paleopathology Association
7) Founding member Tropical and International Health Assn.Canada.
8) The Explorer’s Club (New York), and Founding member of The Explorers
Club Canadian Chapter. Canadian Chapter Vice-Chair 2003-2005, Director 2005
to Present.
9) Old Victorian Association (Re: Victoria College, Alexandria )
Chief of Paediatrics,
Canadian Forces Europe in Lahr, Germany , July 1978 to July 1980
(During leave of absence (sabbatical) from Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
July, 1980: terminated sabbatical with Canadian Forces, Europe
Resumed position as: Staff physician, Hospital for Sick Children Assistant
Professor in Paediatrics,.
Trustee and Governor (representing Defence Medical Association
of Canada), Camp Borden Military Museum (Camp Borden, Ontario)
since 1974
APPOINTMENT: HONORARY PHYSICIAN TO QUEEN ELIZABETH, THE
QUEEN MOTHER, DURING HER TORONTO VISIT 25TH JUNE TO 1ST
JULY, 1974
HONOURS AND DECORATIONS
1): CANADIAN DECORATION (October 1973)
2):
SERVING BROTHER OF THE ORDER OF ST.JOHN. SANCTIONED BY HER
MAJESTY THE QUEEN, 6TH FEBRUARY 1985.
3): RECEIVED BAR TO CANADIAN DECORATION, MAY 1985.
4):
APPOINTED AREA SURGEON LAND FORCES CENTRAL AREA
PROMOTED: COLONEL 1 OCTOBER 1990
5): Received the ORDER OF MILITARY MERIT of Canada, in
the rank of OFFICER, 19 NOVEMBER 1991, Presented at an
investiture by HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RAY
HNATYSHYN, the GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA at RIDEAU HALL,
OTTAWA, ON 20 MAY 1992
6): AWARDED THE SPECIAL SERVICES MEDAL,CANADA,NATO BAR,
IN RECOGNITION FOR ACTIVE SERVICE WITH NATO WHILE STATIONED
IN GERMANY.(FEB.1994)
ACADEMIC HONOUR
1:ELECTED FELLOW, "EXPLORERS CLUB OF NEW YORK",
SEPT. 26, 1979 FOR PIONEERING WORK IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY
(Explorers Club of New York is one of the foremost institutions in the world
relating to geographical and scientific exploration.)
2:UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: RECEIVED THE GOLD UNIVERSITY PIN FOR 25 YEARS SERVICE
TO THE UNIVERSITY.
SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY FILM, 1974
INITIATOR, MEDICAL CONSULTANT AND PARTICIPANT
CBC FILM DOCUMENTARY ON EGYPTIAN MUMMIES (NATURE OF THINGS
SERIES) TITLE- A TRAVELLER FROM AN ANCIENT LAND, 1974
ORGANIZED AND DIRECTED:
FIRST
EUROPEAN EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE “WOODLAND
INDIAN”, OF NORTH AMERICA, 1976
.
A. Aula (City Hall, Conference Room) Luisenschule, Lahr,
Germany, March, 1976
B. Canada House Gallery, England, April-May, 1976
C.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, August-December, 1976 Associated
with above, a definitive, illustrated catalogue was published. This
is recognized as the authoritative document on this
new art movement.
ORGANIZED THE FIRST "SYMPOSIUM ON THE HISTORY OF MILITARY MEDICINE IN
CANADA" TO COMMEMORATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADIAN FORCES MEDICAL
SERVICE.HELD AT CAMP BORDEN, ONTARIO, ON JUNE 13 1984.
CONTRIBUTOR TO TEXTBOOKS ON MUMMIES
MUMMIES, DISEASE AND ANCIENT CULTURES EDITORS DR. AIDAN
COCKBURN AND EVE COCKBURN Cambridge University Press,
1980
Chapter 5 (pages 71--85) ROM 1: Mummification For The Common
People. Millet, N.B., Hart, G.D., Reyman,T.A., Zimmerman,
M.R. and Lewin, Peter K.
SECRETS OF THE MUMMIES
Shelley Tanaka
Scholastic Press 1998
CONVERSATIONS WITH MUMMIES
Rosalee David and Rick Archbold
William Morrow 2000
ACADEMIC LECTURESHIPS
1: THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN COMBINED CENTENNIAL
MEETING 1975
LLOYD MORGAN LECTURE, (HSC ALUMNI) Toronto, 8 June, 1975
Subject-
"
MUMMIES" THAT I HAVE KNOWN - A PAEDIATRICIAN'S VIEW
OF DEATH AND DISEASE IN ANCIENT EGYPT.
2: ANNUAL LECTURER, HISTORY OF MEDICINE FOR 1990.
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY, ST.JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. March 1990.
3: INTERNATIONAL MUMMY SYMPOSIUM.INNSBRUCK/AUSTRIA,15-18/9/93
"
CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN THE EXAMINATION OF ANCIENT MAN".
4:
CLEVELAND HEALTH AND EDUCATION MUSEUM LECTURE: “THE
EGYPTIAN MUMMY”, SECRETS AND SCIENCE.Jan.27th 1985
5: EXPLORERS CLUB (NEW YORK).
EXPLORATION LECTURE SERIES March 1987
THE RIDDLE OF THE MUMMIES: MODERN TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL
ARCHEOLOGY
6: 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND
ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES.ZAGREB, YUGOSLAVIA 24-31 JULY 1988.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE INVESTIGATION
OF ANCIENT PRESERVED MAN.
COLLEGIUM ANTHROPOLOGICUM.1988,VOL.12,SUPPLEMENT:ABSTRACT:22.3.PAGE
340..
7: WELLMARK LECTURE, Main guest lecture given at the Annual
meeting of the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious disease.Montreal,22 Nov.1994.
" VENTURES INTO PALEOPATHOLOGY-'MUMMY' RIDDLES UNRAVELLED
8:
H.GARFIELD KELLY visiting lecturer at the Medical Faculty
of Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario. February 1997
9: DR.PERCY WILLIAMS Lecturer, Paediatric Section Academy
of Medicine, Hamilton,Ontario June 1997
INVITED LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA
1. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF FLUORESCENT NUCLEAR SEX TEST.
XIII INTERNATIONAL PAEDIATRIC CONGRESS. VIENNA, AUGUST
1971.
2.
SYMPOSIUM ON "DEATH AND DISEASE IN ANCIENT EGYPT" ORGANISED
BY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE, FEBRUARY, 1973. (REPORTED IN SCIENCE 181:470-471,
1973)
3.PAEDIATRIC TRAVEL CLUB (NORTH AMERICA) - TORONTO, SEPTEMBER,
1975. SUBJECT:DISEASE IN ANCIENT MAN
4. DELEGATE (REPRESENTING CANADA) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON SCHISTOSOMIASIS (BILHARZIA) CAIRO, EGYPT, OCTOBER 18-23, 1975
5. RAPID DETECTION OF BACTERIA AND PARASITES USING ACRIDINE
ORANGE FLUORESCENCE 42ND ANNUAL MEETING, LABORATORY DIVISION,
CANADA PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OTTAWA, DECEMBER, 1974
PAGE 72.
6. GUEST PANELIST WITH DR, MICHAEL WOOD (KENYA)
Annual dinner of African Medical Research Foundation (I
October, 1976) Toronto.
Subject- Sioux Lookout Zone Medical
Services
7. SECOND CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL DES EGYPTOLOGUES.
GRENOBLE, FRANCE SEPTEMBER 10--15, 1979 (TABLE RONDE SUR
L'ANTHROPOLOGIE DES ANCIENS EGYPTIENS) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
IN ARCHAEOLOGY
8. SECOND EUROPEAN MEETING OF THE PALEOPATHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
TURIN, ITALY OCTOBER 20--22, 1978 "MUMMIES THAT I
HAVE KNOWN
9. SYMPOSIUM: SCIENCE IN EGYPTOLOGY
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY, MANCHESTER (ENGLAND)
JUNE 26--30, 1979
10. SPECIAL LUNCHTIME LECTURER
PAEDIATRIC ANAESTHESIA CONFERENCE, TORONTO, CANADA
NOVEMBER 9--11, 1979
" A PAEDIATRICIAN'S VENTURE IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL ARCHAEOLOGY"
11. INVITED LECTURER, CENTER OF DISEASE CONTROL, ATLANTA,
GEORGIA,. U.S.A. NOVEMBER 15, 1979 " A PAEDIATRICIANS ADVENTURES IN PALEOPATHOLOGY"
12. GUEST PANELISTS NATIONAL.,CANADIAN BROADCASTING SERVICE
THE BOB MCLEAN SHOW, FEBRUARY 12, 1981,SUBJECT-.- MUMMIES.
13. GUEST SPEAKER. 9TH ANNUAL MEETING OF PALEOPATHOLOGY
ASSN., TOLEDO, OHIO. 3-4. APRIL 1982.bb
A) AIDAN COCKBURN MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM.
ROM: Preliminary and Continuing Discoveries.
First use of CAT SCAN in Archeology.
B) RAMSES V: Smallpox Victim? C) Exhibit: Decapitated Canadian Indian Head
from New Brunswick, Canada, about 2000 years old preserved by oxidized copper.
14. GUEST LECTURER DECEMBER 1987
SYDENAM MEDICAL CLUB OF TORONTO.
DISEASES OF ANTIQUITY
15. GUEST LECTURER MARCH 1989
TRENT UNIVERSITY, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO
"MUMMY RIDDLES UNRAVELLED", LATEST TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL ARCHEOLOGY.
16. INVITED SPEAKER JUNE 1989
CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, ANNUAL MEETING,QUEBEC CITY .” REMOVAL
OF THE BRAIN FROM THE FORAMEN MAGNUM OF THE SKULL DURING MUMMIFICATION. A PREVIOUSLY
UNREPORTED METHOD FROM ANCIENT EGYPT.”
17: INVITED SPEAKER
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ONTARIO SOCIETY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS.KITCHENER,ONTARIO,
4 OCT.1989.
MODERN TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
18: INVITED SPEAKER MARCH 1990
TORONTO JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BIBLICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL ARCHEOLOGY.
19: INVITED SPEAKER
SYMPOSIUM ON PALEOPATHOLOGY
XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY,BUENOS
AIRES,ARGENTINA
9 SEPT.1990
MUMMY RIDDLES UNRAVELLED, A PAEDIATRICIANS VENTURE.
20. FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MUMMY STUDIES,PUERTO
DE LA CRUZ, TENERIFE, CANARY ISLANDS. 3-6 FEB.1992
"
MUMMY" RIDDLES UNRAVELLED. A PAEDITRICIANS VENTURE
IN MEDICAL ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES. Program abstract
3.8 page 101
21. INVITED SPEAKER: THE 1994 SYMPOSIUM OF THE SCHOOL
OF CONTINUING STUDIES AND THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
" THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS"
LECTURED ON "ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIESTESS' PAINFUL DEMISE
DEMONSTRATED BY THE LATEST NON-DESTRUCTIVE IMAGING TECHNIQUES." 9TORONTO,
5 NOV.1994
22. INTERVIEW ON SUMMERSIDE (MORNINGSIDE) CBC PROGRAM
TUES. JUNE 9 1993, at 9,45a.m. by RALPH BEN MURGHY
Related to the controversy of destroying the last remains
of preserved SMALLPOX VIRUS , a decision I am strongly
against.
23: MODERATOR AND SPEAKER
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY:ANNUAL MEETING OF PALEOPATHOLOGY
ASSOCIATION (TORONTO 13/14 APRIL 1993)
" TECHNICAL ADVANCES IN PALEOPATHOLOGY AND MEDICAL ARCHEOLOGY,
PAST AND FUTURE.
24: CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
THE JOURNAL: NOVEMBER 2ND, 1982.
SUBJECT: DEBATE WITH MR BEN. WEIDER RELATING TO THE DEATH
OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
25: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: IN DER KANADIER NEWSPAPER, CANADIAN
FORCES, EUROPE 15/6/79, PAGE 5
"
DIERSBURG: A FLICKER OF COMMUNAL REVIVAL IN AN OLD JEWISH
GERMAN COMMUNITY" (REPRINTED IN THE CANADIAN JEWISH
NEWS, VOL. XX, NO. 19, PAGE 4, JUNE 28, 1979.)
26: INVITED SPEAKER AND PARTICIPANT
PALEOPATHOLOGY ASSOCIATION (DETROIT, NOVEMBER, 1976
Subj ect:
1. Autopsy of An Egyptian Mummy
2. Anemias of Antiquity
27: INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY, TORONTO, MARCH
1995
PALEOPATHOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
“
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRIESTESS’ PAINFUL DEMISE ”
28: ARTICLE ON MUMMY PROJECT INITIATED AND DIRECTED BY
DR. LEWIN
ROTUNDA: MAGAZINE OF THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM, TORONTO
The Faces of DJED, A CT-Scan of a ROM mummy illuminates
life from Ancient Egypt.
By Lee-Anne Jack, Rotonda:1995/96, 28,3:30-37
29: INVITED SPEAKER:
JUNE 1975 : EXPLORATION LECTURE SERIES, EXPLORERS CLUB, New York March 1987.
30: MARCH 1990: 1990 HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE AT MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY in
St.John, Newfoundland.
30: In 1994 was the WELLMARK lecturer, at the annual meeting
of the Canadian association of clinical microbiologists
and infectious disease (CACMID) in Montreal
31: THE 13th H.GARFIELD KELLY VISITING LECTURESHIP, January
1997
Medical Faculty, Queen’s University, Kingston,Ontario
Sponsored by the Aesculapian Medical undergraduate Society
“ MUMMY DEAREST”
10
A PAEDIATRICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE FIELD OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
32: INVITED SPEAKER
A)Wellesley health center, Toronto, 26 September 1996:Diseases
of Ancient Man
B)Ontario Society of Medical Technologists, Toronto 2 October
1996 Unravelling the Mummy
C) BCCentre of Disease Control, Grand Rounds Vancouver
7 October 1996 Mummy Pathology
33: INVITED SPEAKER
In June 1997 was the Annual DR.PERCY WILLIAMS Lecturer
of the Paediatric section of the ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
in Hamilton,Ontario.
34: INVITED SPEAKER, National Symposium on Sheep Research
and Technology Transfer. Guelph Oct.24-25,1997
Lewin PK: The need for a rapid Screening test for Scrapie.
Proceedings, Page 66.
35:
GUEST SPEAKER: 1998 Lung Association, BETTER BREATHING
98, Respiratory
Health for the next Millennium. A Paediatrician’s
Venture in the Field of Paleopathology Toronto, 6 February
1998
36: AWARD
Received a 1998 WILLIAM B SPAULDING Certificate
For Contributions to the History of Medicine in the Community
Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine
Associated Medical Services Incorporated
37:
Was one of the scientists involved in exhuming 6 miners
who died
in 1918 of the "Spanish Flu". The exhumation
took place in Longyearbyen, Spitzbergen(Svalbard,Norway)
during August and September 1998.
38: Organized the 1998 Defence Medical Association of
Canada
Clinical Conference, Toronto 3rd October 1998.
Medical Support to UN Peacekeeping Missions
39:
Instrumental in proposing a HISTORIC MARKER to commemorate
the Institute of Aviation Medicine and the development
of the world's first anti gravity flying suit and the human
centrifuge in 1940 by Dr.Wilbur Franks in Toronto. The dedication of the plaque produced by Heritage Toronto
occurred on October the third in Toronto and was directed
by Dr.Lewin.
40: OXOID LECTURE 66TH Meeting of CACMID (10 Nov.1998)
Canadian Association of Clinical Microbiologists and Infectious
Diseases
Frozen in time: Spanish Flu and other Diseases.
41: Invited Dinner Speaker.
May 14,1999
INVESTIGATIVE CHALLENGES OF ANCIENT MAN IN THE PAST MILLENIUM.
60th Anniversary Symposium of the Department of Microbiology
and Immunology. Univ.of Western Ontario. London
42: EUROPEAN PALEOPATHOLOGY CONFERENCE
Chieti, Italy September 2000
Invited speaker: Human PreColumbian Carved Bone demonstrating
ante-mortem trauma.
44: Invited Speaker
Windsor-Essex Infection Control and Preverntion committee
Windsor-Essex Public Health Department
THE FLU AND YOU
P.Lewin:
The 1918 Flu Revisited/Pandemic Influenza
September 13, 2000
45: Invited Speaker
Marshall McLuhan Centre, University of Toronto
Digitized Bodies:Virtual Spectacles Public Lectures(7 Nov.
2000)
My Theme: Numbers,Binary Codes and the Transistor, producing
images in digital format leading to virtual reality.
46: Invited Speaker
Pathology Grand Rounds
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
January 24, 2001
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
1: The abuse of hashish in Egypt. St. Mary's Hospital
Gazette, May 1957.
2: Post-operative blindness with complete recovery in
a patient with sickle cell anaemia.
Brit. Med. J. 2:1373, 1962.
3: The endocrine cells of the kidney. Med. Services J.
, Canada 10: 836-840, 1963
4: Cardiac myoglobin in myoglobinuria.. C. M.A. J. 94:129-131,
1966.
5: Palaeo-electronmicroscopy of mummified tissues. Nature
213:416-417, 1967.
6: Liver ultrastructural and biochemical changes in the
prenephrotic stage of amnionucleoside nephrosis. Exp. Molec.
Path. 8:21-33, 1968.
7: The ultrastructure of mummified skin cells. C.M.A.J.
98:1011-1012, 1968.
8: Nucleolar changes in HeLa cells in the presence of
aminonucleoside.
Lab. Invest. 19:267-272, 1968.
9: Iatrogenic rickets in low-birthweight infants. J.
Paediatrics 78:207-210, 1971.
10: Rapid Y chromosome identification in human blood smears.
C. M.A. J. 104:925-926, 1971.
11: Fluorescent Y Screening in hospitalised newborn males.
Nature 233:334, 1971.
12: Value of fluorescent Y chromosome and sex chromatin
tests..
Acta Cytologica 17:220-223, 1973
13: Rapid detection of microorganisms, particularly malarial
parasites, by quinacrine fluorescence. I.R.C.S. March,
1973, 26-3:-l.
14: Rapid Detection of Bacteria and Parasites using Acridine
Orange Fluorescence.
I.R.C.S. (International Research Communication System) 2:1599. 1974
15: Nakht: A Weaver of Thebes, Rotunda (Royal Ontario
Museum) 7,l4, 1974
16: Hair Zinc Concentrations in Children with Pica(Compulsive
Soil Eaters)
Annual Reports Slowpoke Nuclear Reactor (University of Toronto) August, 1974
17: Electron Microscopy of Ancient Egyptian Skin
British Journal of Dermatology, 9 (573 -- 76) May, 1976,
18:
Mummies That I Have Known -- A Paediatrician's Venture
in the Field of Paleopathology
American Journal of Diseases of Children, 131 (349-350),1977
19: Computerized Axial Tomography of an Ancient Egyptian
Brain I.R.C.S. (International Research Communication System)
5s78, 1977
20: Oral Cromolyn Therapy in Patients with Food Allergy.
A Preliminary Report.
Annals of Allergy, 39(No. 2), 102 -- 105, August, 1977
21: Autopsy of an Egyptian Mummy: Histopathologic Investigation
C.M.A.J, 117 (1977) 470--471
23: Autopsy of an Egyptian Mummy. Electron Microscopy
of
Mummified Tissue C.M.A.J. 117 (1977), 72
24: Bile Acids of a 3200 Year Old EgyptianMummy , Kuksis,
Child, Mythers Marai, Yousef and Lewin Can. J. Biochem
(1978) 56; 1141--1148
25: Preliminary Studies in the Extraction of Human Sounds
Engraved Accidentally into Ancient Vessels
Speculation in Science and Technology (Elsevier, Holland) vol- 3, No. 3 (Aug.
1980), 337--338
26: Ultrastructural changes in the pre-nephrotic liver
in experimental nephrosis.
Proc. Can. Fed. of Biol. Soc. 10:131, 1967.
27: Rapid Y chromosome identification in blood smears.
Am. J. Human Genetics 22:22a, 1970.
27: Fluorescence Y test on blood smears.
Annals Roy. Coll. Phys. & Surg. , Canada 4:37, 1971.
28: Accurate nuclear-sexing of amniotic fluid cells.
Annals Roy. Coll. Phys. & Surg, , Canada 4:60, 1971.
29: Antenatal identification of fetal sex.
Genetics Society of Canada Meeting, Quebec City. June 1971.
30: New advances in paleopathological investigations of
Egyptian mummified material. Clinical Research Society
of Toronto. March 1973.
31: "MUMMY" DEAREST.
Clues to Ancient Maladies, Explorers Journal,
(Official quarterly of the explorers club of New York), Vol. 60, Pg. 110 -
111, Sept. 1982.
32: "NAPOLEON
BONAPARTE"
No evidence of arsenic poisoning. Nature, 14 Oct 1982 :299
,627-628
33: INFECTIOUS PEPTIDES: POSTULATED MECHANISMS OF PROTOVIRIN
REPLICATION IN SCRAPIE,
C.M.A.J. (1982) 15 Sept. 127 P.471-472 34:
LEWIN PK "The
use of Modern Technology in Medical Archeology."
Proceedings of the round table on the Physical Anthropology
of the Ancient Egyptians. Paris 1982. Bull. et Mem. de
la Soc. D'anthrop. de Paris t8 Serie XIII, 1981, 339-34
35: LEWIN P.K., TROGADIS E.K. AND STEVENS J.K.
THREE DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTIONS FROM SERIAL X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY
OF AN EGYPTIAN MUMMIFIED HEAD.
CLINICAL ANATOMY (1990) 3: 215-218.
36: LEWIN PETER K.
COMPUTERIZED RECONSTRUCTION OF FACIAL FEATURES FROM HUMAN SKULL FRAGMENTS.
IN: SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE, (THE 1990 ROLEX AWARDS) BURI (BERN)1990, 157.
37: LEWIN P.K.
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE INVESTIGATION
OF ANCIENT PRESERVED MAN
In HUMAN PALEOPATHOLOGY: CURRENT SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE OPTIONS.
Editors ORTNER D.J. and AUFDERHEIDE A.C. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
1991. Page 90-91
38: LEWIN P.K. AND EDWARDS V.
MITOCHONDRIAL INCLUSIONS IN CREUTZFELD-JAKOB-LIKE DISEASE
LANCET 1991,337, 236-237.
39: BURNS G. and LEWIN P.K.
ECO-ARCHEOMETRY; THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES IN ARCHEOLOGY AND
PALEOPATHOLOGY
J. of the Irish colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 1992:21(no2),98-100
40: LEWIN P.K. and McGREAL D.
ISONIAZID TOXICITY WITH CEREBELLAR ATAXIA IN A CHILD.
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL(CMAJ) 1993,148, 49-50
41 : M.HUESCA, B.GOLD, P.SHERMAN,P.LEWIN AND C.LINWOOD
THERAPEUTICS USED TO ALLEVIATE PEPTIC ULCERS INHIBIT H.PYLORI RECEPTOR BINDING
IN VITRO. ZBL.BAKT. (SEPT..1993) 280(NO.1-2),244-252
42: LEWIN PK
VENTURES IN PALEOPATHOLOGY-”MUMMY” RIDDLES UNRAVELLED
Germs and Ideas(Journal of the Canadian association of clinical microbiologists
and Infectious disease) 1995:1,1,10-14.
43: LEWIN PK
CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN THE EXAMINATION OF ANCIENT MAN
In HUMAN MUMMIES, A global surcvey of their status and their techniques of
conservation
THE MAN IN ICE SERIES, Volume 3, page9 to 14 SpringerWienNewYork 1996
44: LEWIN PK
INVESTIGATIONS 0F THE ORIGINS OF “SPANISH FLU” PANDEMIC
Paleopathology Newsletter ( September 1996) Number 95,
page3-4.
45: DAVIS JL et al including LEWIN PK
GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SURVEYS TO LOCATE 1918 SPANISH
FLU VICTIMS BURIED IN THE PERMAFROST
JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES (2000) 45(1), 68-76
PEER REVIEWED CORRESPONDENCE, LETTERS AND ABSTRACTS
1. Drug therapy in dysmenorrhoea . C. M. A. J. 91:5 69,
19 64.
2. Origins of asthma. Lancet 2:973, 1966.
3. Staining the Y chromosome. Lancet 1:596, 1971.
4. Pathogenesis of nephrosis. Brit. Med. J. 2:49, 1970.
5. Cataracts in chronic headbanging. Arch. of Ophthalmology.
85:768, 1971.
7. Ritual Circumcision Sequel.. Clinical Paediatrics.
October 1971. 583.
8. In support of D. D. T., C. M. A. J. 10 6:13, 19 7 2.
9. SCRAPIE: ? AN INFECTIVE PEPTIDE. Lancet 1:748, 1972.
10. HOSPITAL BATTERED SYNDROME. N. E. J .M : November
1973. 104,
11. Phenytoin teratogenicity with Y chromosome variant.
Lancet 1:559, 1973.
12. POSSIBLE- HEPATITIS AFTER INTRADERMAL ALLERGY SKIN
TESTING. N. E. J. M. 291:533, 1974
13. Fetal sex identification without amnioncentesis..
Clinical Research Society of Toronto, May 1971.
14. Parasitic Bowel Infestation in a 3000 Year Old Mummy
Clinical Research Society of Toronto, April, 1975
15. Pork Tapeworm Infestation in an Egyptian Mummy Joint
Meeting of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Canadian
Society of Tropical Medicine, London, May, 1975
16. Rapid Y Chromosome Screening in Evaluation of Bone
Marrow Transplantation (46)
Clinical Research Society of Toronto, March 1977
.
17. Abstract: Lewin: WHOLE BODY SCAN OF AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY
USING X-RAY COMPUTED AXIAL TOMOGRAPHY
Annual Meeting of Paleopathology Association. Paleopathology
Newsletter, April, 1978.
18. "CINDERELLA
SYNDROME"
C.M.A.J. (1976 ) 115, page 109
19. "Irrigation
of Eyes of Newborns Following Instillation
of Silver Nitrate"
C.M.A.J., 119, page 120, 1978
20.
Anaesthesia in Sickle Cell Anemia B.M.J: 1979,vol 2,
page 493 21. "Cinderella
Syndrome -- Coining the Term"
Am. J. Psychiatry 138: 7. page 1000, July, 1981
22. "INFECTIOUS PEPTIDES IN SLOW VIRUS INFECTIONS:
A HYPOTHESIS" C.M.A.J. 124, page 1436, June 1, 1981
23: "BATTERED PARENT SYNDROME
Can Med.Ass.J. (C.M.AJ.) 1982. (15 March 1982) Vol. 126/6 pg. 593-594.
24 : "Infectious peptides (Protovirins): postulated mechanisms of replication
Annual Meeting of the Clinical Research Society of Toronto - 24 April 1982.
25:
Quinacrine Skin Discolouration is Associated With Fluorescence
of "Y" Chromosome
in Male Cells and Malarial Parasites in Malaria (Correspondence)
Pediatrics.1982:70,1015.
26: Napoleon Bonaparte : What is the real evidence of
Arsenic poisoning?
10th Annual Meeting, Paleopathology Assn. Indianapolis, Indiana, 6 April 1983.
27: Canadian Woodland Indian Art.
Can.Med. Ass. J.(1983) 129: 537-538 (Correspondence)
28: Report ( Dr.P.Lewin )
Use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Archeological specimens.
Paleopathology Newsletter (Sept. 1983) 43:9
29: "Mummy Riddles Unravelled",
review of the present status of medical Archeology.
BULLETIN( Microscopical society of Canada )
May 1984 issue. Vol.12 N0:2.(4-8).
30: Lewin P.K. (Preliminary report)
D.N.A extraction from Ancient Egyptian mummified tissue using hybridization
techniques to determine its viability to express its original genome (Genetic
code).
Paleopathology Newsletter September 1984, Number 47 ,5.
31: Lewin P.K. (Letter)
Central Middlessex Hospital.
St.Mary's Gazette(J.of St.Mary's Hospital Medical School,London, England) october
1984,90,4.
32: Lewin P.K. (Letter)
Non adsorbed vaccine as an option.
Ontario Medical Review, November 1984,51,605-606.
33: Lewin P.K. (Letter)
Possible origin of human AIDS.
Can.Med.Ass.Journal
Vol 132 (15 May 1985), page 1110
34: Lewin.P.K. (Letter)
MUMMIFIED, FROZEN SMALLPOX: IS IT A THREAT.
J.A.M.A( Journal of the American Medical Association) 1985
(June 7 ), 253 (No.21) page 3095.
35:Lewin P.K. (Letter)
Veni-Puncture in Small Patients
Canadian Paediatric Society News Bulletin Vol.16 No:3,
July 1985 page 4.
36:Lewin P.K. (Correspondence)
DISGRACEFUL NEGLECT (RELATING TO THE MENTALLY ILL IN URBAN
AREAS).
Globe and Mail(Toronto) August 9,1985, page 7.
37: Lewin P.K. (Letter)
Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Renal failure in Sickle Cell Anaemia.
British Medical Journal 1985.291,page 413.
38: Lewin P.K. ( Correspondence)
VISNA OF SHEEP AND AIDS
South African Medical Journal 1986.70(3) page 180.
39: Lewin P.K. ( INVITED SPEAKER )
PROGRESS IN SCRAPIE RESEARCH
WORKSHOP:AGRICULTURE CANADA SHEEP RESEARCH PROGRAM.
Ottawa 10-11dec.1986.
40: Lewin P.K.
A UNIQUE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMIFIED HEAD, DEMONSTRATING
REMOVAL OF BRAIN FROM FORAMEN MAGNUM.
Paleopathology Newsletter 1987.(March 1987) 57, Page 12-13.
41: Lewin P.K. (Letter to the Editor)
CANADA'S LOW BIRTH RATE
Globe and Mail, Toronto. 30 April 1987,Page 6A.
42: Lewin P.K.
STEREOSCAN IMAGES FROM COMPOSITE "CAT" SCANS.
PALEOPATHOLOGY NEWSLETTER, JUNE 1987.
" Papers presented at the 14th Annual Meeting, New York,
April 1987, Page 17.
43: Lewin P.K. (Correspondence).
Psychiatry and the Law, Changing attitudes.
Ontario Medical Review, September 1987, Vol.54(9)47.
44 Lewin P.K. (Correspondence).
FIRST STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES FROM CT RECONSTRUCTION OF MUMMIES.
American J. of Roentgenology(AJR), December 1988,151,1249.
45: Lewin P.K. (Correspondence).
CHARITY SHOULD FIRST BEGIN AT HOME.
Globe and Mail, Toronto, December 8, 1988.(A4).
46: LEWIN P.K. (CORRESPONDENCE).
SCRAPIE AND HUMAN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE.
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL MAY1, (1990) 142(9) 928.
47: LEWIN P.K. LETTER
UNTENABLE RESEARCH
(Questionable research on the African Pygmy.)
EQUINOX MAGAZINE (CANADA) July/August 1990,52,11.
48: LEWIN P.K. CORRESPONDENCE
DIAGNOSIS USING ACRIDINE ORANGE STAINING.
THE CANDIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1990:1, NO3, 127
49: LEWIN P.K. (Letter )
PNEUMONITIS FOLLOWING INGESTION OF "SAFE" HOUSEHOLD
PRODUCTS.
PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE 1991:7(2),125
50 : LEWIN PK AND EDWARDS V (LETTER)
MITOCHONDRIAL INCLUSIONS AND CREUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE
LANCET 1991,337, 923.
51 : LEWIN PK (LETTER)
CAUTION URGED IN USE OF RESTRAINTS
CAN.MED.ASS.J. 1991, 145 ,12-13
52: LEWIN P.K. ( CORRESPONDENCE).
SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 1993;150:11,1754-1755
53: LEWIN P.K. (LETTER)
NON-EPILEPTIC ATTACK DISORDER,PSYCHOSEIZURES AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL 1994;70:595
54: LEWIN P.K. (LETTER)
POLYPHARMACY
CAN.J.CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY 1994;1:86
55: PETER LEWIN (LETTER)
BONEY'S HAIR
NEW SCIENTIST (UK) 20 October 1994;144(No:1949):71
56: PETER K.LEWIN (correspondence)
DEATH IN A RESTRAINT JACKET
CAN.MED.ASS J.(CMAJ) 1995;152:14
57: LEWIN PK(Letter)
SYPHILIS AND 1492
NEJM 1995:332,1176
58: LEWIN PK ( Correspondence )
IMMIGRANTS “INADEQUATELY” SCREENED FOR DISEASE
The Medical Post (Canada) 1996,32(13)April 2,page 18
59: LEWIN PK
INVESTIGATIONS 0F THE ORIGINS OF “SPANISH FLU” PANDEMIC
Paleopathology Newsletter ( September 1996) Number 95,
page3-4
60:LEWIN
PK ( Letter to the Editor)
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH
Globe and Mail (Toronto) Saturday, December 28, 1996
D9 61:LEWIN PK (Correspondence)
‘ OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER’
Medical Post 1997, January 14.Page13
62: LEWIN PK (CORRESPONDENCE)
PSYCHIATRIC CUTBACKS
Globe and Mail(Toronto) Wednesday, March 5,1997 A14
63:LEWIN PK
PLIGHT OF MENTALLY ILL A NATIONAL DISGRACE
Toronto Star Friday, October 24, 1997, A 29
63: LEWIN PK (Correspondence)
BSE,VARIANT CJD AND INFECTIOUS PROTEINS
Can.. Medical Assn.J. CMAJ1988,159,302-303
64: LEWIN PK (Correspondence)
NAPOLEON DID NOT DIE OF ARSENIC POISONIONG
(Can.) THE MEDICAL POST 19 DEC,98 PAGES 302-303
65:`LEWIN PK (Reviewer)
Making Faces using Forensic and Archeological Evidence
John Prag and Richard Neave
The Explorers Journal (New York) 1998,76(1) 34-35
66: LEWIN PK (Abstract)
Invited Speaker
National Symposium on Sheep Research and Technology Transfer
Guelph, Ontario Oct.1997
THE NEED FOR A RAPID SCREENING TEST FOR SCRAPIE
Proceedings of the National Symposium, October 1997,104.
67: LEWIN PK ( CORRESPONDENCE)
THE USE AND ABUSE OF RESTRAINTS
Can.. Medical Assn.J. CMAJ 1998; 159(10):1239
68:LEWIN PK (CORRESPONDENCE)
TEMPORARY HENNA TATTOO WITH PERMANENT SCARIFICATION
Can.Medical Assn.J CMAJ 1999; 160(3):310
69: LEWIN P (CORRESPONDENCE0
MOTEL KIDS SYNDROME
Can.Medical Assn.J CMAJ 1999;161:17
70: Dr Peter Lewin
1918 Flu virus
Canadian Living, magazine , October 2000, page92
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