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 The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine sponsors this symposium each year in honor of Justus F. Lehmann, MD, who chaired the department from its founding in 1957 until 1986. During his long and distinguished career, Dr. Lehmann received numerous awards, including the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Gold Key Award in 1971, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s Frank H. Krusen Award in 1983, and the Association of Academic Physiatrists’ Distinguished Member Award in 1993. |
 Dr. Lehmann was born and raised in Germany, completing his MD degree in 1945. He then worked at the University of Frankfurt where his interest in Biophysics was started at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics. |
 He came to the Mayo Clinic in 1951 as a Baruch fellow in biophysics. He studied the biologic effects of ultrasound, using the onion root tip as a tissue model with dividing cells. He went on to have numerous publication and research into the therapeutic effects of heat and cold. |
 He was recruited to the State of Washington (seen here at Cascade Pass, now in the north Cascades National Park) in 1957 to be the founding chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. |
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