Ernest Herman Joseph Bors , MD (1900-1990) is a pioneer in individual multidisciplinary care with spinal cord injury (SCI). He earned his doctorate in 1925 at Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Early in his career he studied anatomy and held research positions and faculty at universities in Zurich, Switzerland and Freiburg, Germany. In 1938, he emigrated to the United States where he became a citizen. At the outbreak of World War II, Bors joined the Army Medical Corps.
Bors became interested in spinal cord injuries while treating veterans after the war. In 1944, he joined the staff of the Hammond Army General Hospital in Modesto, California. As an assistant head of urology, Bors is a consultant urologist to the Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Department of the hospital. At that time, comprehensive care for injured veterans was hindered by the lack of a cohesive approach to their complex medical and social problems. Bors was surprised by the lack of special interventions for bladder management and other secondary conditions due to spinal injuries. She is motivated to devote her career to improving every aspect of individual care with spinal cord injuries.
As a result of his experience, Bors became a leading expert in the field of neurology on traumatic spinal injuries. He also developed a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that forms the basis for a modern spinal cord injury center. The successful existence of a comprehensive special ward drew the attention of the War Department. Modeled on Bors' innovative approach, in 1945, the War Department opened the first Spinal Cord Injury Center in the United States at Birmingham General Army Hospital in Van Nuys, California, with responsible Bors. Soon, he has 220 patients he has treated. Military doctors from across the country visited the facility and began to set up similar centers across the country.
In 1958, Bors helped oversee the construction of a new facility dedicated to SCI Services, now known as Long Beach VA Medical Center. Over the next two decades, doctors and administrators from around the world observed the innovative work of Bors and his colleagues, Dr. Estin Comarr. In 1970, the year when he retired, Bors has overseen the care of more than 2,500 people with SCI. Through its efforts, the number of SCI centers is increasing in the US, as well as the staff-to-patient ratio. Bors wrote over 140 major scientific papers and textbooks, co-authored by Estin Comarr and entitled, Neurological Urology, Micturition Physiology, Neurological Disorders and Their Sequels, which remains an authoritative text in this field.
Bors is recognized as a pioneer who "carries care and research torches and paves the way for better care" of all individuals with spinal cord injuries. He is immortalized by The Ernest Bors Award for Scientific Development, administered by the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, the official journal of the American Paraplegia Society. This annual award recognizes the best article published in the Journal by a young researcher.
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