This is the most important book I’ve ever written.
–John Grisham
A message from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation Chairman
We all want Paul’s story to have a happier ending—for ourselves and our families.
We want to help ensure that focused ultrasound is part of our future. Though in its infancy, there is great potential for this revolutionary approach. But progress is too slow.
With your help, we want to raise awareness and funds to help accelerate research and improve the lives of millions of people with serious diseases.
Please consider giving generously to support our work.
Be well,
Neal F. Kassell, MD
Focused Ultrasound Foundation Board of Directors
Neal F. Kassell,
MD
Chairman, Focused Ultrasound Foundation
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia
Dorothy N. Batten
Founder, iThrive Initiative
Former Director, Landmark Communications, Inc.
Lodewijk J.R. de Vink
Founding Partner, Blackstone Health Care Partners
Former Chairman &
CEO
, Warner-Lambert
Eugene V. Fife
Founding Principal, Vawter Capital
Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
John R. Grisham
Author
Daniel P. Jordan,
PhD
President Emeritus, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Edward J. “Ned” Kelly, III
Former Chairman, Institutional Clients Group, Citigroup
Edward D. Miller,
MD
Former
CEO
, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Frederic H. Moll,
MD
Co-founder, Intuitive Surgical
Chairman &
CEO
, Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc.
Steve H. Rusckowski
President &
CEO
, Quest Diagnostics Inc.
Former
CEO
, Philips Healthcare
Andrew C. von Eschenbach,
MD
President, Samaritan Health Initiatives
Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
Former Director, National Cancer Institute
Carl P. Zeithaml,
DBA
Dean and F. S. Cornell Professor of Free Enterprise,
McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia
Colophon
Designer
Anne Chesnut
Charlottesville
VA
Managing editor
Sara Coates Myhre
Charlottesville
VA
Copy editor
Margo Browning
Charlottesville
VA
Printer
Worth Higgins & Associates, Inc.
Richmond
VA
Stock
McCoy Silk text & cover
Type
Galliard, Whitney
Acknowledgements
Focused Ultrasound Foundation would like to thank Martha Jefferson Hospital and their Outpatient Care Center for the generous use of their facilities and staff in the photography of this book.
Thanks to the following people who participated in the photography: Jonathan and Leanna West (Paul and Karen) and their children Gavin, Issac, and Nolan; Shane Allen; Matt Eames,
PhD
; Jeff Elias,
MD
; Sarah Gray; Thomas E. Huerta; Lee Kassell,
MD
; Amber Smith; John Snell,
PhD
; Pete Weber; Alexa Witcofsky; and Kaitlin E. Young.
Photography
Cover, pp.
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Stephanie Gross, Charlottesville
VA
p.
13
(Lee Atwater)
Office of the President, 21 January 1989
p.
13
(Wilma Rudolph)
Dutch National Archives
p.
13
(George Gershwin),
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number
LC-USZ
62-42534
DLC
p.
13
(Edward M. Kennedy)
United States Senate official portrait
p.
13
(Beau Biden)
official campaign portrait
p.
13
(Susan Hayward)
20th Century Fox publicity photo
p.
46
The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
MR scans
Max Wintermark,
MD
,
Stanford University School of Medicine
Illustrations