Charles Ragan
Charles Alexander Ragan Jr. (born 1910 in Washington, DC , † October 26, 1976 in New York City ) was an American doctor ( rheumatology ). He was a professor at Columbia University .
Life
Ragan was the son of a military doctor, moved his family several times, depending on where his father was stationed, and graduated in 1936 from Princeton University and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S, Columbia University's medical school) Residency training took place at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 1941 he was at Columbia University (Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center), interrupted from service as a military doctor from 1942 to 1945 in North Africa and Italy. From 1946 to 1971 he was director of the Edward Daniels Faulkner Arthritis Clinic. In 1961 he succeeded Dickinson W. Richards Lambert as professor of medicine at Columbia University and director of the first medical department (Columbia) of Bellevue Hospital and after the end of the collaboration between Columbia University and Bellevue Hospital in 1968 he was medical director of Harlem Hospital Center. In 1971 he became head of the medical school at Columbia University. After retiring in 1975, he was still co-director of the clinical research program.
Among other things, he dealt with the immunology of rheumatoid arthritis, physiology and biochemistry of connective tissue, the biological effect of steroid hormones of the adrenal gland, metabolic diseases of bones.
In 1959 he was one of the earliest winners of the Canada Gairdner International Award . He received the award with Harry M. Rose as a co-discoverer of the rheumatoid factor (RF) in 1948. However, Erik Waaler discovered it independently in Norway (1940).
In 1976 he received the Academy Award from the New York Academy of Medicine, in 1972 he received the Gold Medal of the Society of Alumni of the Columbia College of P&S, and in 1971 he received a Masters from the American College of Physicians. 1953/54 he was president of the American Rheumatological Association . In 1976 he received an honorary doctorate from Columbia College of P&S.
Nobel laureate Baruch S. Blumberg is one of his students .
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Individual evidence
- ^ HM Rose, C. Ragan, E. Pearce, MO Lipman: Differential agglutination of normal and sensitized sheep erythrocytes by sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, Proc. Soc. Exp. Biolog. Med., Vol. 68, 1949, pp. 1-11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ragan, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ragan, Charles Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1976 |
| Place of death | New York City |