Alexander B. Gutman

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Alexander Benjamin Gutman (born June 7, 1902 in New York City , † May 4, 1973 ) was an American medic.

Gutman studied in New York and in 1925/26 in Halle and received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Vienna . He was Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia Research Service at Goldwater Medical Hospital before becoming Chief Physician (Chairman of the Department of Medicine) at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City in 1952 . In the early 1950s, he founded one of the first gout clinics in the USA there. At first he examined thyroxine in the thyroid gland, overactive thyroid gland, parathyroid glands , bone diseases and metabolic products in various cancers.

In 1947 he was awarded the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work on prostate-specific acid phosphatase . In 1961 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award for his contributions to rheumatology and biochemistry, in particular to metabolic defects in gout and the demonstration of the therapeutic effects of drugs that increase the excretion of uric acid ( probenecid as a uricosuric ). His research, which established a connection between gout and increased uric acid levels, he carried out in part with Tsai-Fan Yu . With her he also conducted a five-year clinical study on the therapeutic effects of colchicine in gout (published in 1961 in the Annals of Internal Medicine ). The therapeutics probenecid and allopurinol were also tested by Gutman and Yu in clinical studies.

In 1946 he founded the American Journal of Medicine .

literature

  • Hans Popper: Alexander B. Gutman (1902–1973), American Journal of Medicine, Volume 54, 1973, Issue 6
  • Tsai-Fan Yu: A tribute to Professor Alexander B. Gutman Ph.D., MD June 7, 1902 - May 4, 1973 . In: Arthritis & Rheumatism , Volume 18, 1975, X-XII
  • Arthur Aufses, Barbara Niss: The house of noble deeds. The Mount Sinai Hospital 1852-2002, New York University Press 2002, pp. 33ff

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of rheumatology on Mount Sinai
  2. ^ Gairdner Award
personal data
SURNAME Gutman, Alexander B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutman, Alexander Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1973