Stanley J. Sarnoff
Stanley Jay Sarnoff (born April 5, 1917 in Brooklyn , † May 23, 1990 in Salt Lake City ) was an American physician ( cardiologist ) and inventor. Sarnoff was the founder and CEO of Survival Technology, with which he mainly sold auto-injectors he had invented .
Life
Sarnoff was the son of a surgeon known at the time (Jacob Sarnoff) and attended Princeton University ( Bachelor's degree in 1938) and Johns Hopkins University Medical School, with an MD degree in 1942. He then received his practical and specialist training at Bellevue Hospital in New York , at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston , at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, and at Harvard Medical School . Instead of becoming a surgeon, as his father wanted, he turned to physiological research and was Associate Professor of Physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1948 to 1960 . In 1954 he was the founder and director of the Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory at the National Heart Institute of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland . After having a heart attack himself, he gave up his position at the NIH and later founded his own company with his wife and colleague Lili-Charlotte ( LoLo ) Sarnoff, first Rodana Research Corporation and then its successor, Survival Technology Inc. (STI).
During his time at NIH and prior to that at Harvard, he and co-workers undertook fundamental research into cardiology and physiology of the heart. Eugene Braunwald was one of the members of his laboratory . He published over 200 scientific papers and held around 40 patents.
His auto-injectors were initially developed for the US Army as an antidote in chemical warfare , but also from the outset by Sarnoff as an emergency drug in cardiology (as the forerunner of the EpiPen for adrenaline injections later sold by his company ). He also developed, among other things, an electronic transmitter that could send electrocardiograms of cardiac patients over the telephone line.
He last lived in Bethesda and died in Salt Lake City University Hospital awaiting a heart transplant.
He set up a foundation (Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation) that funds research grants for medical students in cardiology.
In 1970 he received the Carl J. Wiggers Award from the American Physiological Association and in 1962 the Canada Gairdner International Award .
Fonts
- with E. Berglund: Ventricular function , part 1: Starling's law of the heart studied by means of simultaneous right and left ventricular function curves in the dog. In: Circulation. Volume 10, 1954, pp. 84-93
- with RB Case, E. Berglund: Ventricular function , Part 2: Quantitative relationship between coronary flow and ventricular function with observations on unilateral failure. In: Circ. Res. Vol. 2, 1954, pp. 319-325
- with E. Berglund, JP Isaacs: Ventricular function , Part 3: The pathologic physiology of acute cardiac tamponade studied by means of ventricular function curves. In: American Heart Journal. Volume 48, 1954, pp. 66-76
- Myocardial contractility as described by ventricular function curves; observations on Starling's law of the heart. In: Physiological Review. Volume 35, 1955, pp. 107-122
- with JH Mitchell: Control of function of heart. In: WF Hamilton, P. Dow: Handbook of Physiology. Volume 1, 1962, pp. 489-532
- with JH Mitchell, JP Gilmore, JP Remensynder: Homeometric autoregulation of the heart. In: Circ. Res. Vol. 8, 1980, pp. 1077-1091
Web links
- Glenn Fowler: Stanley J. Sarnoff, 72, Cardiologist and Inventor. In: The New York Times . May 25, 1990 (obituary)
- Biography at the Sarnoff Foundation (with picture)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarnoff, Stanley J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sarnoff, Stanley Jay (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1990 |
| Place of death | Salt Lake City |