1977: Neurosurgeon Dr. Dennis Spencer and his team founded the Yale Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, where he pioneered epilepsy surgery techniques for temporal lobe epilepsy and developed the most commonly used technique for removing parts of the temporal lobe.
1975: YNHH rheumatologists Stephen E. Malawista and Allen Steere identified and named Lyme Disease, which opened a path for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a puzzling, potentially debilitating disease.
1979: Drs. William Tamborlane and Robert Sherwin developed the first portable insulin pump, transforming the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Their trial was the first to demonstrate that continuous insulin infusion could provide dramatically improved control of type 1 diabetes.
