The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard: Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Peter Wortsman

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard

Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Peter Wortsman

In the series Columbiana

https://doi.org/10.7312/wort19128

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About this book

Peter Wortsman offers a selection of profiles of Columbia-educated doctors who have made a fundamental difference in the lives of others. The physicians profiled in this book represent the complete spectrum of MDs.

Author / Editor information

Wortsman Peter :

Peter Wortsman is an editor in the Department of Alumni Relations and Development at the Vangelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He is an author of fiction, nonfiction, and translator from German to English.Peter Wortsman was managing editor of alumni publications at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University from 1987 to 2018. He is the author of four previous books, two plays, and numerous translations from German.

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Rita Charon, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Executive Director of Columbia Narrative Medicine:
In these profiles of some of America’s most notable, influential, and fascinating MDs, Peter Wortsman merges social history, theory of the professions, and an intimate local cultural anthropology of Columbia University’s medical center. Our Columbian history provides a microcosm of the history of medicine writ large, showing the obligatory interweaving of clinical practice and basic science breakthroughs. The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard will be an inestimable resource for all interested in medicine and its interface with society, as well as a source of inspiration to medical students and applicants to medical school.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Taking Doctors’ Histories, a Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
A New Dean Digs in at Boston University School of Medicine: Karen Antman ’74 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
A Champion of Health Equality at the Helm of the NYC Department of Health: Mary T. Bassett ’79 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
New Jersey’s Health Care Crusader: Stanley S. Bergen, Jr. ’55 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
A Nobel Laureate’s Lifelong Commitment to Curiosity: Baruch Blumberg ’51 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Babies’ Best Friend: T. Berry Brazelton ’43 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Musings of a University President Emeritus: Keith Brodie ’65 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Promoting Respect for “Our Future Selves”: Robert N. Butler ’53 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
A Neurosurgeon at the Helm of the AMA: Peter Carmel MSD ’70 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
A Vitreoretinal Visionary: Stanley Chang ’74 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Protecting Imperiled Populations: Davida Coady ’65 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
How Three P&S Alumni Bucked the Odds and Made It Big in Biotech: Ron Cohen ’81, Paul Maddon MD, PHD ’88, and George Yancopoulos PHD ’86, MD’87 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
An American Odyssey: Robert Coles ’54 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Medicine by the Book: Robin Cook ’66 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
A Shared Life in Medicine, Canadian Style: Richard ’55 and Sylvia Cruess ’55 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Surgeon-Scientist Takes Knowledge to the Cutting Edge: Patricia Donahoe ’64 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Tuning-up the Engine of Public Health in the Motor City: Abdul El-Sayed ’14 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
The Unretiring Dean of American Rheumatologists: Ephraim P. Engleman ’37 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
From Student to Surgeon to University Trustee—A Columbia Journey: Kenneth Forde ’59 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
From Endocrinology to Admissions, a Life in Medicine: Andrew G. Frantz ’55 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Practicing the “Art of the Possible”—The Outgoing Director of the CDC Reflects on His Time at the Helm: Thomas R. Frieden MD/MPH ’86 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Medicine by Bench, Bedside, and Book: Jerome Groopman ’76 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
A Pioneer in Adolescent Medicine Committed to Health and Well-being for All: Karen Hein ’70 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
At Home in High Places: Charles S. Houston ’39 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
An All-Star on the Team Against TB: Michael Iseman ’65 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Championing Intellectual Rigor and Risk at the American University of Beirut: Fadlo R. Khuri ’89 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Making Health Care Happen, a Committed Primary Care Practitioner in the Deep South: Karen Kinsell ’93 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Urologist, Historian, Collector, Sleuth: John K. Lattimer ’38 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Yes, There Is A Balm in Gilead: Margaret Morgan Lawrence ’40 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
A Doctor in the House—the White House, That Is: Burton J. Lee, III ’56 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Receptive to Receptors: Robert J. Lefkowitz ’66 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Adventures in Virology: Jay Levy ’65 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
A Digital Pioneer at the National Library of Medicine: Donald A.B. Lindberg ’58 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Out of Anguish into Africa: Martha M. MacGuffie ’49 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Battling Invisibility—A Primary Care Clinician and Spokesperson for the Care of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender People: Harvey J. Makadon ’77 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
At the Cancer Command: Paul Marks ’49 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
A Pivotal Player at P&S and Presbyterian Hospital Throws in the White Coat (And Looks Back with Pride): Thomas Q. Morris ’58 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
A Surgeon in Space: Story Musgrave ’64 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
A Military Neurologist on the Front Against Chemical Attack: Col. Jonathan Newmark, MC, USAR ’78 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
It Takes Heart: Suzanne Oparil ’65 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
An Educator Not Afraid to Stick His Neck Out: Calvin H. Plimpton MSD ’51 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Notes of a Pioneering Neurosurgeon: J. Lawrence Pool MD ’32, MSD ’40 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
First Woman of Medicine: Helen Ranney ’47 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Medicine by Blue Pencil: Arnold Relman ’46 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
A Doctor to the World: Allan Rosenfield ’59 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Kidneys are Color-Blind: Velma Scantlebury ’81 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
The Hands-on Surgeon-in-Chief of the Hospital for Special Surgery: Thomas P. Sculco ’69 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
The Assistant Secretary for Health Is a Doctor First and Foremost: Eve Slater ’71 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Rebel Doctor with a Cause: Benjamin Spock ’29 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
A Veteran NIH Investigator Takes on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Stephen E. Straus ’72 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
A Pioneering African American Perinatologist Looks Back with Pride: Yvonne Thornton MD ’73, MPH ’96 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Merck’s MD at the Top: P. Roy Vagelos ’54 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Nobel Laureate at the NIH: Harold Varmus ’66 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Advocate for Women’s Health: Lila Wallis ’51 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
A Matter of Heart: Clyde Y. C. Wu ’56 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
The Scientific Wunderkind of Biotech Makes Proteins Do the Right Thing: George D. Yancopoulos PhD ’86, MD’87 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	408
Author’s Bio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Photo Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: General/trade;

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9780231549325