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When John M (Mickey) Nardo, whom you may know better as the author of this blog, died on 19 February 2017, the loss was felt around the globe.Mickey’s contributions to the field of psychiatry are renowned, from outstanding patient-centred care, to rigorous analysis of clinical trial data relating to psychiatric drugs, to incisive dissection of fake science. Anyone familiar with Mickey’s work will know of his passion to ensure that evidence is analysed and reported accurately, with particular care given to recommendations around potential benefits and harms.Mickey was a great friend to us at the Critical and Ethical Mental Health research group , part of the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide in Australia. He helped lead our (Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials) reanalysis of the infamous of paroxetine (Paxil) for adolescent depression. This work resulted in a prestigious publication in the British Medical Journal.Mickey is survived by his wife Sharon, his daughter Abby and son-in-law Christian, his ‘semi-adopted’ daughter Caitlin, and his sister Anna. His family support the creation of the John M. Nardo Postdoctoral Fellowship here at the University of Adelaide to best honour Mickey’s memory.Will you the John M Nardo Postdoctoral Fellowship?Our goal is to establish the position for two years in the first instance. Through the Fellowship, CEMH will be able to provide valuable and accurate information about the benefits and harms of psychiatric medications for adolescents.
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This research will help health professionals make better decisions about how to respond to people with mental health problems. And crucially, it will help to improve the integrity of future research.We have secured from the newly established at the University of Maryland. Part of this grant, along with donations already received, will cover the Fellowship for the first year, when the Fellow’s main focus will be on restoring the influential and controversial Treatment of Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS).We seek further funding to support the recruitment of a strong John M Nardo Fellow on a 2-year appointment. Please join us in donating. The University of Adelaide (UA) uses the to allow overseas donors to claim a tax deduction in their support of the University.For American-based donors wishing to support the John M Nardo Postdoctoral Fellowship, they can either:. Donate online: Please click on the and under amount please enter University of Adelaide, John M. Nardo Postgraduate Fellowship.
Donate via donation form: Please click on the and once downloaded form is completed (ensure you indicate John M. Nardo Postgraduate Fellowship) send to Ms Silvia Schwarz at 1505 Lexington Ave, Apartment 2C, NY 10029We believe Mickey would find this a fitting tribute. Nardo, MD, Born December 3, 1941 in Chattanooga, TN, died February 19, 2017.John Michael Nardo, MD (known as Mickey) was the rare physician who excelled in patient care, medical education, and research. Born in 1941 to John and Nita Nardo, Mickey attended McCallie School and City High School. After attending the University of Tennessee, he initially expected to pursue a medical career in research, completing an NIH fellowship in Immunology and Rheumatology during an internal medicine residency in Memphis.
However, his experience as an internist at Lakenheath Air Force base in England convinced him that he enjoyed working directly with patients and wished to have more time and skills to help them. So he decided to pursue a second residency in psychiatry in 1974 at Emory University. In 1976, he began psychoanalytic training at Columbia University in New York.
After three years as Medical Director of the Grady Memorial Hospital psychiatric emergency room, he joined the faculty at Emory University Department of Psychiatry and assumed the position of Director of Residency Training. Later, he opted for private practice, serving Atlanta as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst for more than thirty years. Anyone lucky enough to have been his patient received superb care. Anyone lucky enough to have been his colleague appreciated Mickey’s gift for turning complex concepts into memorable vignettes.
For decades, Mickey taught for the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society and the Georgia Psychiatric Association. He was an active faculty member in Emory’s Psychiatry Residency Training and a pillar of the Psychoanalytic Institute.In 2003, after a successful career as “Dr. Nardo,” Mickey “retired” in order to build barns and a house with two close friends, to create maps and a web site for the Mountain Stewards Trail Tree Project, and to blog about politics.
In 2007, when he joined the Good Samaritan Clinic in Jasper, GA as a volunteer physician, he began to see first hand the problems of current psychiatric drug promotion. He quickly educated himself about the drugs that he had used only sparingly in his private practice. As a result of these observations, the focus of his blogging turned to exposing the problems in the pharmaceutical industry, especially the distortion of clinical trial reports.
This work culminated in. After a lengthy struggle to obtain the original patient-level data used in a key article on a popular psychotropic drug, Mickey rigorously reanalyzed the data in order to demonstrate that the study’s claims of the drug’s effectiveness in children were false. In December 2016, on his 75th birthday, Mickey said, “I never thought I’d make my most important contributions to the field of medicine at this time in my life.” In January 2017, Emory School of Medicine promoted Dr. Nardo to Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry in recognition of his devoted service to psychiatry at Emory and in Atlanta and of his internationally recognized research.Although Mickey spent his life trying not to be special, he was one of a kind. He had an epic sense of play and could sit for hours entertaining children with legos, clay, or toothpicks.
And his neighbors all knew him as a consummate barbecue pit master. Mickey is survived by his wife of 50 years, Sharon Nardo; his daughter Abby Nardo, a psychologist in Raleigh, NC; his son-in-law Christian Karkow, an adjunct professor of design; his semi-adopted daughter of 30 years, Caitlin Way, Associate Director of Development at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta; and his sister Anna Nardo, LSU emerita professor of literature, now living in Evanston, IL. A memorial gathering will be held in Atlanta at 2pm on March 18th at the Emory Brain Health Center (12 Executive Park NE). In lieu of flowers, please donate to one of the following three groups in the name of Mickey Nardo: Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine 16 Cutler St, Suite; All Trials ; and Lown Institute.
Dad died just before midnight last night. Every end-of-life choice made was his, and knowing that gives Mom, Caitlin, and I a lot of peace. The only sadness (not really a regret, since we did all we could to make this happen), was that Dad could not make it back home to die. He was just too sick.Because Dad was on a trach, he could not speak in the last days of his life, and his hands were too swollen and weak to be able to type. Despite those limitations, we worked out how to communicate surprisingly well. I let Dad know that I would like to turn his blog into a book.
He really liked that idea. Given the size of his blog and the amount of quoted information included herein, this will not be a quick project, but it is one to which I am committed. I have already begun to make inquiries. I told Dad that Barney Carroll seemed to me to be a good person to consult with about this project, and he wholeheartedly agreed. I may post here from time to time as I work on this project.
I really want to honor him and serve this community to the best of my ability.You have meant so very much to my Dad. He’s had this whole new career as a retiree, and I thank all of you for that. I know he’s really made a difference in the field, and I am so proud of him. I am the admin for this blog, so if anyone has a burning need to post something here, please let me know, and I can post it as a main topic with the title “Guest Post: John Doe.”There will be a large memorial gathering in Atlanta soonish.
It won’t be immediate because Dad is so beloved by so many people that we expect a large crowd. We would love to have some of you in that crowd if you are able. This is probably several weeks out, but keep that in mind.
We want you to know that you are welcome.Dad was recently working on a Change.org petition. One favor you could do for him and for us is to read and sign it. I have a feeling you will all love it, and Barney says Dad created the graphic of the two ostriches with their heads in the sand.So much love to all of you.
I’m Mickey’s daughter and luckily, I am Dad’s admin, so I’m able to log in and post. My husband and I traveled to Georgia Wednesday afternoon because my father has been admitted to the ICU. He has severe pneumonia, COPD, and renal failure. Yesterday he was intubated and sedated and he remains in that condition.
It’s taken me about 36 hours to realize that we haven’t yet contacted the people with whom he communicates the most! There aren’t many updates to give since right now, their primary aim is to treat this pneumonia so he’s sedated (and luckily, stable). I’m willing to take the risk of him being very annoyed with me for “outing” him in this way since I know you all are so engaged with him and will begin to wonder why your very chatty friend has suddenly gone quiet. Dad doesn’t ever like to be special, but as you all have probably worked out by now, he’s pretty amazing. And right now, he’s pretty sick. I can say he’s in very good hands.
Mom and I are very impressed with the staff at the hospital.This will probably embarrass him, but here’s a photo I took of him a few years ago. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Mom and I will check them later today.
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Doctors make rounds in the ER between 10 and 12, so we may know more later today.