John Eager Howard (medic)
John Eager Howard (born August 27, 1902 in Baltimore , Maryland , † February 27, 1985 in Baltimore County , Maryland) was an American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins University .
Life
Howard was the great-great-grandson of John Eager Howard (1752-1827), Revolutionary War general and first governor of Maryland.
Howard earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University , New Jersey , in 1924 and an MD in 1928 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where Fuller Albright and Read Ellsworth introduced him to scientific work in his final stages. Howard worked as an intern at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston between 1928 and 1930 and at Johns Hopkins University Hospital between 1930 and 1934, where he became a faculty member in 1934. Howard became Assistant Professor in 1937, Associate Professor in 1946 and full professor in 1960. Between 1957 and 1971 he was director of internal medicine at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. In 1968 he retired , but was still scientifically active. His last scientific paper appeared in 1981 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Howard was one of the editors of scientific journals The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and Johns Hopkins Medical Journal .
Howard was married. He and his wife Lucy had two children. John Eager Howards died in 1985 of complications from a stroke .
Act
Howard made important contributions to the understanding of the causes of arterial hypertension and the hormonal regulation of calcium metabolism . In particular, he succeeded in identifying a substance with citrate that inhibits the formation of kidney stones and other calcification processes in serum and urine . Together with Fuller Albright, Howard was one of the first to describe the milk-alkali syndrome .
Awards (selection)
- 1960/1961 President of the Endocrine Society
- 1964 Modern Medicine Award for Distinguished Achievement
- 1968 Passano Award
Johns Hopkins University has held a John Eager Howard Professorship in Endocrinology and Metabolism since 1983 . The current job holder (as of 2012) is Paul W. Ladenson .
literature
- SP Asper: Evaluation of Dr. John Eager Howard's contributions to medicine. In: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association . Volume 207, Number 4, January 1969, pp. 730-735, ISSN 0098-7484 . PMID 4883519 . (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Thomas B. Connor, William C. Thomas: In Memoriam John Eager Howard, MD In: Endocrinology . tape 119 , no. 1 , July 1986, p. 443 , doi : 10.1210 / endo-119-1-443 , PMID 3522214 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Eager Howard, 82, Dies; Researcher at Johns Hopkins at the New York Times March 1, 1985 (nytimes.com); Retrieved July 9, 2012
- ^ Past Recipients - The Passano Foundation, Inc. In: passanofoundation.org. Accessed April 20, 2019 .
- ^ John Eager Howard Professorship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu); Retrieved July 9, 2012
Web links
- The John Eager Howard Collection in the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (jhmi.edu); accessed on February 17, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howard, John Eager |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howard, John E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1985 |
| Place of death | Baltimore County , Maryland |