Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Seated, left to right —Dr. Murray, Dr. Chang, Dr. Edsall, Dr. Snyder, Miss Campbell, Dr. Bell, Dr. Ley. Standing —Mrs. Spielman, Mrs. O ' Connor, Miss Bunzl, Mrs. Owens, Dr. Arsenian, Dr. Martinez-Silva, Dr. Polet, Dr. Vinson, Mrs. Franz, Miss Grear, Mrs. Rota, Mrs. Miskoe, Miss Carson. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY John C. Snyder, A.B., M.D., Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department Geoffrey Edsall, M.D., Professor of Applied Microbiology Edward S. Murray, A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Assistant Physician to University Health Services Samuel D. Bell, Jr., A.B., M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Microbiology Robert S. Chang, B.Sc., M.D., S.D. in Hyg., Associate Professor of Microbiology Charlotte C. Campbell, B.S., Associate Professor of Medical Mycology Robert A. MacCready, S.B., M.D., Associate in Microbiology and Director of Diagnostic Laboratories, Department of Public Health of Massachusetts James A. McComb, D.V.M., Associate in Public Health Immunology and Director of Biologic Laboratories, Department of Public Health of Massachusetts Robert B. Pennell, S.M., Ph.D., Lecturer on Immunology Herald R. Cox, A.B., S.D., S.D. (hon.), Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Robert J. Huebner, M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology John H. Hanks, S.B., Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Charles H. Rammelkamp, M.D., Visiting Lecturer on Microbiology Catharine Atwood, A.B., Instructor in Public Health Bacteriology Nadim A. Haddad, B.A., M.D., M.P.H., Research Associate in Microbiology (Absent 1962-63) John W. Vinson, S.B., S.D., in Hyg., Research Associate in Microbiology Roger L. Nichols, A.B., M.D., Research Associate in Microbiology (Absent 1962-63) Dorothy E. McComb, S.B., Assistant in Microbiology Leo Levine, S.B., Assistant in Microbiology Jirair Arsenian, M.D., Research Assistant in Microbiology Herman Polet, M.D., Research Fellow in Microbiology 27

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Dr. John C. Snyder Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Department 26

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T HE Department of Microbiology combines its teaching interests with research on infectious disease problems in distant areas. In teaching, the six-unit course on ecology and epidemiology of infectious diseases is the staff ' s major endeavor, in col¬ laboration with the Department of Tropical Public Health. Other courses are concerned with public health laboratory methods, rickettsial and viral disearses, research methods, and applied immunology. The special research interests of the department include rickettsial diseases, properties of human cells in tissue culture, biochemical aspects of genetic factors, trachoma, and immunologic problems of the host-parasite relationship. Mycology is a new area of interest being developed jointly with the Department of Tropical Public Health. In Yugoslavia the department is carrying on a collaborative study on the immuniza¬ tion of man against rickettsial diseases. In conjunction with the Arabian American Oil Company, the department is carrying on research on trachoma in Portugal, Hong Kong, Ethiopia, Arabia, and Arizona, U.S.A. In this project trachoma strains from various areas have been isolated and studies are in progress attempting to discover a method of immunizing children against the damaging effects to the cornea produced by trachoma viruses. The Department has a close association with the Institute of Laboratories of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and several of the staff members have joint appointments. Drs. Snyder, Edsall, Murray, Chang, Bell, Ley, Vinson and Miss Charlotte Campbell are the staff members who are best known to those taking the departmental courses. The new additions to the Microbiology staff this year are Dr. Herbert Ley in Virology and Immunology and Miss Charlotte Campbell, Medical Mycologist, 28