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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on August 28, 2007
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsm061
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Introduction to the Special Issue: A Tribute to the Life of Raymond K. Mulhern

Larry Kun, MD1 and Ronald T. Brown, PhD2

1St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Department of Radiological Sciences, and 2Department of Public Health, Temple University

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Larry Kun, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332N, Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105. E-mail: Larrry.kun@STJUDE.ORG.

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Raymond Kenneth Mulhern, PhD, was known throughout the field of pediatric psychology as a pioneer in the science that now links psychology and neuropsychology with childhood cancer. As an academician, a clinical psychologist, and a clinical investigator, Ray set the standards and goals as the study of the psychological and cognitive changes in children and adolescents treated for cancer were first recognized in the late 1970s.

Ray was amongst the first psychologists in the United States recruited to an academic position within a pediatric oncology division, when he joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1979. He began a career-long study of the neuropsychological effects of cancer and its treatment in children and adolescents with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and brain tumors. In relocating to St Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1985, Ray developed a division that has been able to definitively document the correlations amongst disease, therapy, and functional . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Functional Outcomes
 

   Interventions and Clinical Trials
 

   Quality of Life
 

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