William Dameshek
William Dameshek (born May 22, 1900 in Voronezh , † October 6, 1969 in New York ) was an American hematologist .
Life
William Dameshek was born as Ze 1900ev Dameshek in Russia in 1900 . When he was three years old, his family emigrated to the United States , where they settled in Medford, Massachusetts . The parents renamed their son William. He attended Boston's English High School and studied medicine at Harvard University until 1923 . In the same year he married Rose (Ruddy) Thurman. Ten years later he had a daughter with her, Elinor.
He completed his internship and residency at Boston City Hospital, where he worked in the hematology laboratory. His first publication “The reticulated blood cells - their clinical significance.” (“The reticulocytes and their clinical significance”) was published there in 1926. Three years later, Dameshek went to the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston . For nine years he was head of the hematological clinic there. He then went to the New England Medical Center, now Tufts Medical Center . There Dameshek set up a hematological research laboratory and worked for 26 years as head of hematology and as a university lecturer.
William Dameshek helped found the International Society of Hematology and was one of its first presidents. He was the founder of Blood magazine in 1946 , co-founder of the American Society of Hematology in 1958, and its president in 1964. In 1963 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In 1951 Dameshek created the concept of " myeloproliferative syndromes ". The Spaet-Dameshek syndrome was described by Dameshek and TH Spaet in 1952.
In 1966 Dameshek left the New England Medical Center as a professor emeritus and went to New York City to the Mount Sinai Medical School.
William Dameshek died in 1969 during open heart surgery for an aortic dissection .
Fonts (selection)
- William Dameshek: Leukopenia and Agranulocytosis (1944)
- William Dameshek: Hemolytic Syndromes (1949)
- Wiiliam Dameshek: Some speculations on the myeloproliferative syndromes. Blood 6 (1951), 372-5 PMID 14820991 full text
- William Dameshek: The Hemorrhagic Disorders (1955)
- William Dameshek, Frederick Gunzs: Leukemia , Grune & Stratton, New York 1958
Honors
Dameshek has held several honorary professorships at universities around the world. The American Society of Hematology awards the Dameshek Prize annually for outstanding contributions to hematology.
Dameshek received the following awards:
- Certificate of Merit from the American Medical Association (1942)
- Billings Silver Medal (1952 and 1953)
- Premio Ferrata Medal (1958)
- Miller O. Thompson Gold Medal from the American Geriatrics Society (1968)
swell
- Robert S. Schwartz: William Dameshek: Compassionate Clinician and GiftedTeacher.
- JL Tullis: William Dameshek, 1900-1969. Blood 35 (1970), 1-3, PMID 4904869 , online (PDF document; 373 kB)
- RM Dutcher: Dedication to William Dameshek, MD Bibl Haematol 36 (1970), PMID 4950963
- RN Taub: William Dameshek, MD, 1900-1969. Mt Sinai J Med 37: 81-3 (1970), PMID 4908001
- P. De Nicola: William Dameshek, 1900-1969. Haematologica 54: 721 (1969), PMID 4994287
- H. Gerwel: In memoriam: Prof. William Dameshek. Acta Haematol Pol 3 (1971), 279-80, PMID 4949899
- William Dameshek, MD (1900-1969). N Engl J Med 281: 1244-5 (1969), PMID 4899871
- Entry DAMESHEK, WILLIAM in the Jewish Virtual Library
- Entry William Dameshek on whonamedit.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ TH late would, W. Dameshek: Chronic hypoplastic neutropenia. American Journal of Medicine 13 (1952), 35-45
- ↑ late would-Dameshek syndrome on whonamedit.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dameshek, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dameshek, Zeʾev (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American hematologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voronezh |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1969 |
| Place of death | New York City |