Esther M. Albrecht was born on September 16, 1932 in Staunton, Illinois. She attended Washington University School of Nursing and graduated in 1953. She spent the rest of her career as a Cardiac Cath Lab nurse working at St. Mary’s and Deaconess Hospitals.
Katherine Bain was born September 1, 1897, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology at the University of Missouri in 1920 and was the sole woman in her 1925 medical school class at Washington University School of Medicine.
After an internship in San Francisco, Bain returned to St. Louis for a residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She then joined in private practice with her brother-in-law, Dr. Park J. White. Sharing a sense of outrage at the poor care given to African-American children, Dr. Bain and Dr. White ran the first racially integrated medical facility in St. Louis and fought to have African-American physicians admitted to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In 1940 Bain moved to Washington, D.C. to join the federal Children’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare as director of the division of research in child development. In her more than 30 years with the Children’s Bureau, Bain served as deputy chief and as assistant chief for International Cooperation. Bain was instrumental in alerting the public about the dangers of childhood poisoning, and her reports led to the development of child-proof safety caps. She also supervised the preparation of the best-selling government publication, “Infant Care,” of which over 50 million copies were distributed. In 1963 President Kennedy appointed Bain to represent the United States on the Executive Board of UNICEF. She served in that position until her retirement from government service in 1972.
Bain likely met her longtime friend and housemate Christine Glass in St. Louis, perhaps through Bain’s work with the Progressive Pre-School, where Glass served as the director. The two moved together to Washington, D.C., where they jointly owned a house until Glass’s death in 1977.
Bain died on January 10, 1999 at the age of 101.
Mary Bartlett Bunge is a distinguished neuroscientist whose research focused on curing paralysis. From 1970 to 1989, Bunge conducted her research at Washington University School of Medicine, first as a Research Assistant Professor and then as a Professor. In 1989, Bunge accepted a position at the University of Miami School of Medicine. She conducted research with her husband, Richard Paul Bunge, until his death in 1996. She retired in 2017.
Jerome R. Cox, Jr., was born on May 24, 1925, in Washington, D.C., to Jerome R. Cox, Sr., and Jane Mills Cox. The family moved frequently in his early years, with stints in Maryland and New York before they settled in South Bend, Indiana, in 1930.
Cox enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in May 1943. By the end of that summer, he had received a draft notice, and he left MIT to attend basic training at Camp Blanding in Florida. Cox served in the U.S. Army from 1943-1944, stationed first in northern Africa and then in Italy, where he developed an infection in his foot. While recovering in August 1944, he received orders to return to the United States to be discharged. Cox returned to MIT to continue his studies that fall, and he went on to complete his bachelor's (1947), master's (1949), and doctoral (1954) degrees in electrical engineering.
Cox joined the faculty of Washington University and Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) in 1955 after serving as a consultant in acoustics for Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. In 1964, he founded the Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL), a pioneer in the application of computers to biomedical research. That same year, he was instrumental in bringing the Laboratory Instrument Computer, known as the LINC, and its development team from MIT to Washington University.
At Washington University, Cox served as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering, 1955-1958; associate professor of Electrical Engineering, 1958-1961; professor of Electrical Engineering, 1961-1999; director, Biomedical Computer Laboratory, 1964-1975; professor of Biomedical Engineering in Physiology and Biophysics, 1966-1999; professor of Computer Science, 1975-1998; chairman, Department of Computer Science, 1975-1991; professor of Biomedicine, Institute for Biomedical Computing, 1983-1998; professor of Radiology, 1986-1998; director of Applied Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, 1991-1995; and senior professor of Computer Science, 1999-2005.
Mokhtar Gado was born in Monoufiah, Egypt and was educated at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1949 and his medical degree in 1953. He completed internships and residencies at Cairo University Hospital, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, England, and National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, England before joining the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as a senior fellow in Neuroradiology in November, 1970. In 1972 Gado was appointed chief of the Neuroradiology Section; he relinquished his administrative duties in 1991 to devote his full time to research and teaching.
Gado was a leading researcher of neurological diseases and has done extensive research into magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and spine. He is recognized for his extensive research in the radiological manifestations of Alzheimer’s disease and brain changes in the elderly, and in the correlation of physical principles of magnetic resonance to the pathologic changes in the disease processes of the central nervous system.
Noted immunologist Emil R. Unanue was born in Havana, Cuba in 1934. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1952 from the Institute of Secondary Education in Havana, and his medical degree in 1960 from the University of Havana School of Medicine.
After an internship in pathology at the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh in the early 1960s, Unanue served as research fellow at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California and the National Institute for Medical Research in London. In 1970 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, where he became the Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology in 1974. Unanue moved to St. Louis and the Washington University School of Medicine in 1985 as head of the department of Pathology and Immunology and as pathologist-in-chief of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During his twenty-one year tenure, the immunology program at Washington University became one of the most innovative and productive centers in the world for immunological research.
Unanue currently serves as the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology at Washington University School of Medicine. He is internationally recognized as a leader in understanding how the immune system identifies foreign matter (antigen) and how immune system T cells respond to it. Unanue's pioneering research into how immune recognition and attacks take place continues to help scientists gain insights that may one day be used to improve the body's defenses against diseases and to disarm misdirected immune attacks that could lead to autoimmune conditions such as diabetes and arthritis.
Unanue is a recipient of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Robert Koch Gold Medal from Germany. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.
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Carlos A. Perez is an internationally recognized specialist is radiation oncology who has made important contributions to the clinical management of patients, especially those with gynecologic tumors and carcinoma of the prostate and of the breast. Throughout his career, Perez has been motivated by his belief in providing patients with a genuine sense of caring and an understanding of their disease as well as their psychological and emotional needs.
Perez earned his medical degree in his native Colombia, South America at the University of Antioquia School of Medicine in Medellin in 1960. Following a one-year residency in Colombia, Perez came to the United States and Washington University School of Medicine. Following three years as a radiation oncology resident at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and a one-year fellowship in radiotherapy at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, Perez returned to Mallinckrodt as an instructor in radiology. In 1966 Perez initiated a program for the specific training of radiation therapy technologists.
Perez was named a professor of radiology in 1972 and in 1976 he assumed the directorship of the Radiation Oncology Center, one of four divisions of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. Under Perez's leadership, the Radiation Oncology Center developed a strong research core resulting in significant contributions to cancer treatment, amplifying the effects of radiation with chemotherapy and hyperthermia. In 2001 the Center became a separate academic department of the Washington University School of Medicine, with Perez as its first chairman. Perez remained in that role until the fall of 2004.
A strong advocate of the human aspect of medicine, Perez was instrumental in the founding of the Cancer Information Center (CIC) in 1977 ' the first resource facility of its kind in the United States, providing medical information and resources as well as emotional support to cancer patients. He is the recipient of many honors, including the CRILA Gold Medal in 2000, the Gold Medal of the American College of Radiology in 1997, and the Gold Medal of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 1982. He served as a Trustee of the American Board of Radiology from 1985 to 1997 and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society.
Sven Gustav Eliasson was born in Malmo, Sweden on April 16, 1928. He received a PhD in physiology from the University of Lund in 1952 and his medical degree from the Royal Caroline University of Lund, Sweden in 1954. He was an instructor at the University of Lund. In 1954 he became a junior research anatomist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He became an attending physician at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX in 1956. He was chief of the neurology service at Parkland Hospital from 1961 to 1963 while he was on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. In 1963 he joined the faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine as an associate professor of neurology. He became professor in 1967. He was associate director of the Irene Walter Johnson Institute for Rehabilitation as well the Programs in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy. Eliasson retired from Washington University School of Medicine in 1992. Eliasson died on June 4, 2023.
Harry Sturgeon Crossen graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in 1892. He headed the department of gynecology from 1921 until 1935, when he retired as professor emeritus.
Frank Kleffner (October 22, 1925 - June 12, 2015), after serving in World War II, received his Ph.D. in speech pathology from the University of Wisconsin in 1952. That same year, he joined the staff of the Central Institute for the Deaf, where he worked for 24 years. He served as the Director of the Speech Pathology Department from 1965 to 1973, and as the CID Director of Clinics from 1973 to 1976. He joined the faculty of the Washington University School of Dentistry as an Assistant Professor of Speech Pathology in 1954 and became a full professor in 1965. In 1976 he left CID and Washington University to become the Director of the Institute of Logopedics (now Heartspring) in Wichita, Kansas, where he worked until his retirement in 1991.
Kleffner’s work focused on assisting children with communication disorders. In 1957, with William M. Landau, MD, professor and later director of the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, Kleffner identified and described Landau-Kleffner syndrome, a rare disorder in which children lose the ability to speak and respond to language.
Kleffner served as the president for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 1970, and then as the president for the ASHFoundation from 1981-1985. He received ASHA Honors, the highest award given by the association, in 1985.
Frances H. Stewart was born in 1904. She received her medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1927 and practiced as an obstetrician and gynecologist in St. Louis for over 50 years. Interested in family planning and prenatal care, Stewart served as medical director of Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and on the clinical faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine.
Richard M. Krause received a B.A. degree from Marietta College in 1947 and in 1952 was graduated from Western Reserve University School of Medicine, now Case-Western Reserve. In the course of his medical studies, he participated in epidemiologic research on the prevention of rheumatic fever, which spurred his interest in the relationship between infection and immunity.
In 1954, following training at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, he joined the Rockefeller Institute and Hospital (now Rockefeller University) where he rose to the rank of professor. He returned to St. Louis and was professor of epidemiology in the department of preventative medicine and associate professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine from 1962 to 1966. The persistent theme underlying his research concerned the substances in bacteria that stimulate the body's immune system. This is best exemplified by his research on the immune response to streptococcal polysaccharides. This led to an examination of the genetic factors that influenced the immune response. In recognition of his research achievements, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Appointed the director of NIAID in 1975, Dr. Krause was among the first to perceive "the return of the microbes." He guided the Institute through a period of growth to cope with the re-emergence of microbial diseases as health threats and to stimulate research on the complexity of the immune system. The Institute was reorganized along programmatic lines and the Rocky Mountain Laboratory was restructured into independent laboratories. The Institute also led the way in recombinant DNA research and technology. Responding to the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, Dr. Krause organized field studies in Haiti and Zaire in the search for the origins of the virus.
In July 1984, Dr. Krause retired from the U.S. Public Health Service and became Dean of Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1989, he returned to National Institutes of Health to become a senior scientific advisor at the Fogarty International Center.
Lawrence Kahn received a BA from the University of Alabama, and an MD from Louisiana State University. He completed his residency at City Hospital in St. Louis, before working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama for two years. Kahn was accepted into Washington University's postgraduate program in the Department of Pediatrics as a Fern Waldman Research Fellow, where he worked in the field of pediatric cardiology. Kahn established a private practice in St. Louis, but returned to Washington University full-time in 1979 to become the medical director of the Medical Care Group (MCG), an experimental prepaid group practice which paired university-affiliated physicians with patients from independent local practices.
Price Rowland was one of the first woman graduates of Washington University School of Medicine. After graduating in 1928, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where she held a position at General Hospital and, later, the Jewish Hospital.
William Price Rowland graduated from St. Louis Medical College in 1888. Following his graduation, he returned to his hometown of Bevier, Missouri to practice medicine.