Lewis Phillip Rowland (August 3, 1925 – March 16, 2017) was an American neurologist.
He authored over 500 scientific articles, with a research emphasis on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), and muscular dystrophy.
He was chair of the neurology department at Columbia University for 25 years, where he established the H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases as well as the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center.
His father changed the family name to Rowland when Lewis was a teenager, as colleges placed restrictions on the number of Jewish students at the time.
[1][2] Roland attended Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School before entering Yale University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1945 and MD in 1948.