Dr leo kanner biography of mahatma gandhi

1. Early Life and Education
2. Immigration to the United States and Medical Career
3. Kanner's Contributions to Psychiatry
4. Collaboration with Leon Eisenberg
5. Hans Asperger and Autism Spectrum Disorder
6. Legacy of Kanner's Work

Early Life and Education

Leo Kanner was born as Haskel-Leib Kanner on June 13, 1894, in Klekotov, Austria-Hungary (present-day Ukraine), to a devout Jewish family.

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In 1913, he enrolled at the University of Berlin, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. He eventually obtained his doctorate in 1921.

Immigration to the United States and Medical Career

In 1924, Kanner immigrated to the United States and worked at a hospital in South Dakota.

In 1930, he was recruited by Adolf Meyer and Edward Park to establish the first pediatric psychiatry service at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He became a professor of psychiatry in 1933.

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