1951
Dr. Short is born in Milford, Delaware to Raymond Calistus and Barbara Anne Calistus.
1973
Dr. Short receives a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College.
1975
Dr. Short receives a diploma from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
1978
Dr. Short receives a Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and begins an internship in internal medicine at Hahnemann Medical College Hospital in Philadelphia.
1979
Dr. Short begins a medical residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
1981
Dr. Short becomes a neurology resident at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center.
1984
Dr. Short becomes a fellow in medical genetics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
1986
Dr. Short becomes a fellow in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
1988
Dr. Short receives the Clinical Investigator Developer Award from the National Institutes of Health.
1990
Dr. Short becomes an assistant neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
1990
Dr. Short becomes an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
1995
Dr. Short becomes an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Pathology at the University of Chicago.
1997
Dr. Short is appointed program director of genetics, transplantation, and clinical research for the American Medical Association in Chicago, Illinois.
1997
Dr. Short is appointed director of the Office of Science for the American Medical Association.
1999
Dr. Short becomes a fellow of the Institute of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
2000
Dr. Short becomes a clinical associate of pediatric neurosurgery at the University of Chicago.
2002
Dr. Short becomes a fellow of the McLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.
2017
Dr. Short authors “Tales From the Pen & Other Confined Spaces.”