A Time for All Things

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Artificial Heart ◽  
Heart Surgery ◽  
Vascular Diseases ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Baylor University ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Lebanese Immigrants

Born in 1908 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Michael DeBakey is the eldest of six children of Lebanese immigrants. He enjoys conspicuous academic success as a youth and then medical school, displaying intelligence and originality. DeBakey comes under the tutelage of surgery professor Alton Ochsner. He also spends a year training in Europe. Debakey and Ochsner publish important research papers. In World War Two DeBakey is assigned to the Office of the Army Surgeon General, where he excels in administration, rising to the rank of Colonel. He serves beyond the war’s end, contributing to the foundation of postwar federal medical research and veterans’ care. In 1948 he becomes Chair of Surgery at Baylor University medical school in Houston. The department focuses clinical and research efforts on vascular diseases, and leads a revolution in the surgical approach to these problems. DeBakey’s own family suffers from his devotion to his work. In the 1960s DeBakey’s fame grows. His lab pursues an artificial heart. Colleague Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart with a device taken from DeBakey’s lab, and a forty-year rift between these two giants ensues. DeBakey becomes President, then Chancellor of the Baylor medical school. After the death of his first wife, he remarries in the 1970s. His fame and influence are worldwide. DeBakey operates on the Shah of Iran, and is consulted on the heart surgery of Boris Yeltsin. He is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2008, and dies shortly afterward at age 99, a universally-admired legend.

FIRST WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON HEALTH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-400
Author(s):  
TALCOTT BATES
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
White House ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Lay Persons ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Medical Educators

ON November third and fourth of 1965 some 850 persons gathered in Washington, D.C., for the first White House Conference on Health. Here are some impressions which might interest and concern pediatricians. Pediatricians and other practitioners from all parts of the country attended, with medical educators, representatives of the broadest possible array of medical personnel, and lay persons. Representation of governmental agencies ranged from the Mayor of Unalakleet, Alaska, population 574, to the Secretary of State. To observe the dialogue between medicine and government, perhaps 100 or more persons from governmental agencies attended as observers. Pediatrics was well represented, although it was not always easy to spot pediatricians—they attended among many roles as medical school deans, family planners, and public servants at all levels, from "Bill" Stewart, the Surgeon General, and Harry Towsley, retiring Academy president, on down. A versatile lot.

"... about as austere as a Dior gown ...": New Zealand architecture in the 1960s

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Christine McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Medal Award ◽  
The 1960S

Peter Middleton's 1964 description of Hoogerburg Scott's Futuna Chapel (1958-1960) as being "about as austere as a Dior gown and as comforting as a hair shirt ... [but] at least it's a meaningful statement" points to a sense of complexity and contradiction present in the architecture of the 1960s. The decade which began with Futuna's completion, ends shortly after its recognition with an NZIA Gold Medal Award in 1968. The significance of the building weaves through the full length of the decade.

Projection of pediatric manpower requirements

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Mary Kaye Willian ◽  
Richard W. Olmsted
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Physician Shortage ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1960s, predictions were made that the United States faced a "physician shortage."1,2 On the basis of these predictions, federal legislation subsidized the establishment of new medical schools and the expansion of those in existence. From 1968 to 1974, the number of medical school graduates rose from 7,973 to 11,613.3 Nevertheless, problems of availability of, and access to, health services remain. Mere increase in number of physicians is not the solution to the problem of health care delivery in the United States; in fact, there is concern that we now face an oversupply of physicians.4 The recently published Carnegie report recommends that only "one" new medical school be established.5

HEART PUMP AND OXYGENATOR

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1124-1128
Author(s):  
W. T. Mustard
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Artificial Heart ◽  
Heart Surgery ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Open Heart Surgery ◽  
World War ◽  
Heart Pump ◽  
The World ◽  
Cardiac Bypass ◽  
Selection Of

THIS PAPER is a general review of the development of the artificial heart-lung to facilitate open-heart surgery. At the close of World War II many centers began investigating the possibility of total cardiac bypass. Oven the past decade, pump oxygenerators of various types have become popular and recent clinical successes throughout the world have given further impetus to the study of problems posed by the artificial heart-lung apparatus. The subject divides itself into three separate parts, the first two being concerned with the maintenance of life in an experimental animal during a total cardiac bypass. One must take all the blood from the animal and return it to the animal by means of a pump. Secondly, one must oxygenate the blood before returning it. The third part of the problem confronting the surgeon is the selection of cases and correction of defects in human subjects. The pumping mechanism must duplicate as nearly as possible the action of the chambers of the heart. Pumping action must be smooth so as to prevent hemolysis and to avoid turbulence with thrombosis. It is not difficult to construct a pump with which hemolysis can be kept to relatively negligible amounts. Most of the pumps in use throughout the world give an hemolysis of less than 50 mg of hemoglobin per 100 ml of blood, which is perfectly safe. Turbulence with thrombosis can be overcome by removing valves inside the stream and placing valves outside of, rather than within the stream of blood. Furthermore, heparinization of the blood lessens the tendency to thrombosis.

Kurokawa, Kishō [黒川紀章] (1934–2007)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neilton Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Richard Neutra ◽  
The University

Kishō Kurokawa [黒川紀章] was born in 1934 in Kanie, Aichi prefecture, Japan, and studied architecture at Kyoto University, obtaining his bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1957. Further studies at the University of Tokyo under Kenzō Tange, graduating with a master’s degree from its Graduate School of Architecture in 1959, were followed by doctoral studies at the same institution until 1964. Kurokawa was a key proponent of Metabolism, the Japanese architectural movement that utilized biology as a metaphoric vehicle to reconfigure both the cityscape and architectural practice itself, and which came to attention at the World Design Conference 1960 in Tokyo. Founding his own practice, namely Kishō Kurokawa Architect & Associates (KKAA) in Tokyo in 1962, Kurokawa’s projects during the 1960s and 1970s were mainly located in Japan. They included the Resort Center Yamagata Hawaii Dreamland (1967) and the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo (1972), the latter being a key example of Metabolism. The late 1970s saw Kurokawa pursuing engagements overseas, and from the 1980s onwards he consolidated his activity abroad, including projects such as the Japanese-German Center of Berlin (1988), Melbourne Central (1991), the new exhibition wing at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (1998), and Astana International Airport, Kazakhstan (2005). Kurokawa received numerous awards, including the Académie d’Architecture Gold Medal, France (1986), Richard Neutra Award, USA (1988), AIA Pacific Rim Award, USA (1997), Dedalo-Minosse International Prize, Malaysia (2003–2004), Walpole Medal of Excellence, UK (2005), and an International Architecture Award, USA (2006). Honorary doctorates were bestowed on Kurokawa by Sofia University, Bulgaria (1988), Newport Asia Pacific University (now Anaheim University), USA (1990), Albert Einstein International Academy Foundation, USA (1990), and the Universiti Putri Malaysia (2002). Kurokawa died of heart failure in 2007.

Houston: 1990–2008

2019 ◽  
pp. 553-590
Author(s):  
Craig A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Heart Surgery ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Ventricular Assist ◽  
Left Ventricular Assist ◽  
Russian President ◽  
Boris Yeltsin ◽  
Physician Scientists

The era of 1990–2008 sees the establishment of the MicroMed organization to further collaboration with NASA on a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). The High School for Health Sciences in Houston is named for DeBakey. DeBakey is consulted in the heart surgery case of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Baylor and Methodist Hospital celebrate DeBakey’s 50th anniversary in Houston, but then split. Hurricane Katrina disrupts Tulane Medical School, and DeBakey is instrumental in a temporary transfer of personnel and students to Baylor. DeBakey suffers aortic dissection at age 97, but survives the operation—a procedure which he had helped to develop. He continues in his role as medical statesman. DeBakey receives the Congressional Gold Medal, and there is rapprochement between DeBakey and Cooley. Dr. DeBakey dies in 2008, mourned across the globe and recognized as one of the all-time greatest physician-scientists in history.

Informed choice of entering medical school and academic success in Iranian medical students

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 978-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasin Farrokhi-Khajeh-Pasha ◽  
Saharnaz Nedjat ◽  
Aeen Mohammadi ◽  
Elaheh Malakan Rad ◽  
Reza Majdzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Informed Choice

James Bell Pettigrew (1832–1908) MD, LLD, FRS, comparative anatomist, physiologist and aerobiologist

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Dugald Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Cardiac Muscle ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Animal Locomotion ◽  
Andrews University ◽  
Design In Nature

After leaving Glasgow University, Pettigrew joined the Edinburgh Medical School in 1856. Professor Goodsir determined Pettigrew’s entire future by awarding him the Anatomy Gold Medal for an essay on cardiac muscle. The essay was accompanied by dissections of such high quality that they led to the Croonian Lecture of the Royal Society of London in 1860. After graduating, Pettigrew’s time as House Surgeon to James Syme was followed by a position in the Hunterian Museum, London. Intensive studies of urinary and alimentary muscle, and observations of insects and animals, with lectures on flight to distinguished societies, contributed to disabling illness and a long convalescence but in 1869 Pettigrew became Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and then Pathologist to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The publication of Physiology of the Circulation and of Animal Locomotion, with its emphasis on aeronautics, ensured international fame. Fellowship of both London and Edinburgh Royal Societies was another factor contributing to Pettigrew’s election to the Chandos Chair at St Andrews University in 1875. The construction and abortive flying of a motor-driven aeroplane came near the end of his life and Pettigrew gave his remaining years to completing his monumental Design in Nature.

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