title: In memoriam of Professor Theodore L. Munsat (1930-2013): his outstanding legacy with the WFN.
abstract: The World Federation of Neurology (WFN) lost an outstanding leader on November 22, 2013 with the death of Professor Theodore Leon Munsat ("Ted"), in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Professor Munsat was Emeritus professor of Neurology at Tufts University School of Medicine and served the WFN in several capacities as trustee, chairman of the WFN Education and research committees, chairman of the WFN ALS Research group and founding director of the WFN Seminars in Clinical Neurology. He was president of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 1989-1991, chairman of the Continuing Educational Committee of the AAN and founding director of AAN's premier continuing medical education journal Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology. He left an outstanding legacy with the WFN.
authors.affiliation: Dean School of Medical Sciences, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Electronic address: marcotmedina@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Marco T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Medina
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D010820:Physicians / Q000266:history*
keywords: ALS; CME; Education; Legacy; Neurology training; Obituary; Theodore Munsat; WFN