Daniel J. McCarty

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Daniel J. McCarty (born October 31, 1928 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American doctor ( rheumatology ).

Life

McCarty studied at Villanova University with a bachelor's degree in biology in 1950 and medicine from the University of Pennsylvania with an MD degree in 1954. He began his specialist training ( internship ) at Fitzgerald-Mercy Hospital in Darby and completed further specialist training ( residency ) at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1960 he became an assistant professor and in 1963 an associate professor of internal medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College of Drexel University , where he headed rheumatology. From 1967 to 1974 he was Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and Head of the Department of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. From 1974 he was a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin and director of the Arthritis Institute there . From 1974 he was head of the medical faculty for 17 years and was Will and Cava Ross Professor .

He is known for research on gout , pseudogout , Milwaukee shoulder syndrome and the RS3PE syndrome (remitting symmetrical seronegative synovitis with pitting edema). He has over 300 publications and was the editor of the Standard Handbook on Arthritis and Related Diseases in the United States.

In 1965 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1979/80 he was President of the American Rheumatism Association . From 1965 to 1970 he was editor of Arthritis & Rheumatism and in 1988 founding editor of Current Opinion in Rheumatology . He is a Masters from the American College of Rheumatology .

Fonts

  • Editor: Arthritis and allied conditions, 13th edition, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia 1993 (editor since 1972)
  • Published in: Rheumatology Volume, Current Practice of Medicine, 1993

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME McCarty, Daniel J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania