Martin A. Samuels, MD, FAAN, MACP, FRCP, DSci (hon.), was a renowned neurologist and the founding Chairman of the Neurology Department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He held the Miriam Sydney Joseph Distinguished Chair for Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and was a recipient of the National Clinical Excellence Award from Johns Hopkins University, the Bicentennial Medal from Williams College, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, among many others. Dr. Samuels was board certified in both Internal Medicine and Neurology and was a Master of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of The American Neurological Association, and the Royal College of Physicians, London. He created the Manual of Neurologic Therapeutics and was incredibly influential to the development of the field of neurological medicine in the interface between internal medicine and neurology.