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(Circulation. 2004;109:2044-2045.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.

In Memoriam

Robert Carl Schlant, MD, 1929–2002

Scientist, Clinician, Teacher, Mentor, Friend

Nanette Kass Wenger, MD; J. Willis Hurst, MD

From the Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence to Nanette Kass Wenger, MD, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine, 69 Jesse Hill Jr Dr, SE, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail nwenger@emory.edu

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Dr Robert Schlant’s professional career at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, spanned almost half a century, from 1958 to 2002. He rapidly rose through the faculty ranks to become Professor of Medicine in 1967. He was Director of the Division of Cardiology from 1962 to 1988 and Chief of Cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital until 1998. As director of one of the largest cardiology training programs in the nation, he imbued 3 generations of young cardiologists with his love of learning, his passion for excellence, his advocacy of research, and his dedication to patient care. Decades before the contemporary emphasis on evidence-based medicine, he challenged colleagues and trainees alike to seek and apply such evidence. When this was lacking, he designed and implemented research studies to accumulate data and was an active participant in many of the early landmark multicenter coronary and cardiovascular clinical trials as investigator, steering committee member, and publication committee member, to name a few.

He was the consummate teacher, equally skilled at bedside rounds, formal lectures, journal article and textbook writing, textbook editing, and conference organizing. His emphasis was on the teaching-learning interaction, exhorting residents and fellows to both teach each other and to establish their patterns for lifelong learning.

Robert Schlant was born in El Paso, Texas. He graduated as valedictorian from Boys High School in Atlanta, Georgia, and then graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University, where he was one of the youngest starting quarterbacks in the Southeastern Conference. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]