(Photos, left and below) Lud Gutmann
and friends at a reunion at Princeton
in 2005.
Biography
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RICHARD ROAD

Richard Road: Journey from Hate
available February, 2012
RICHARD ROAD: Journey from Hate
will be available in February, 2012

THE IMMOBILE MAN
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Lud Gutmann MD is the Hazel Ruby
McQuain Professor of Neurology at the Robert
C. Byrd Health Sciences Center at West
Virginia University where he cares for his
patients and teaches and mentors medical
students and residents.
He was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1933.  
His father was a prosperous factory executive
and his mother, a teacher.

Because of the Nazi menace, his family: father,
mother, and infant brother, Frank,came to the
United States in 1937 and settled on a farm in
New Jersey.

He was admitted to Princeton University in
1951. He was the first graduate of his rural
public high school to attend Princeton.
His life in medicine began in 1955 after his
graduation from Princeton. He went on to
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of   
Columbia University, '55-'59, followed by
a residency in neurology at the University
of Wisconsin, '59-'63, service as an U.S.
Air Force neurologist, '63-'65, and finally
a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at
the Mayo Clinic, '65-'66.
After completing the fellowship, he was
recruited to West Virginia University where he
helped establish the Department of Neurology
and went on to both chair the department
and maintain an active medical practice for
28 years, until 1998 when he stepped back
into the clinical practice of neurology and
teaching in the medical school, his first love.

Without the responsibility of leading the
department, he has had time to pursue
writing, a long-term interest, and avocation.

He has been a director and vice-president of
the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology and has also been on the editorial
boards of neurological journals.

Dr. Gutmann's lifetime research has focused
on diseases of muscles and nerves and he
has published more than 170 articles in
peer-reviewed journals. He received an
honorary doctorate degree from the
University of Mainz, in Germany, in 1993.

His stories, featuring his patients, have
appeared in various magazines and journals.
He has collected a group of these stories into
a book titled, The Immobile Man,
published in 2009.  A memoir titled, Richard
Road: Journey from Hate will be published in
January, 2012. A second story collection, as
well as more stories are in progress and in
publication.

His medical practice is at West Virginia
University where he holds the Hazel Ruby
McQuain Chair of Neurology. He lives in
Morgantown, West Virginia, with Mary Wallis
Gutmann, his wife and editor.