Professions: Chief state public health officer in Oregon from 1967-79; emeritus professor of public health and preventive medicine and emeritus clinical professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the Oregon Health Sciences University; started the first poison control center in the United States, in Chicago in 1953; served as a Major in the Air Force during World War II.
Degrees: M.D. from New York University-Bellevue Hospital School of Medicine; Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard University School of Public Health, 1947.
Death: September 7, 2006, at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon, of mantle cell lymphoma.
From The Oregonian.
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