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

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Dr. Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Head of the Department NUTRITION 29

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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

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Left to right —Miss Stefanik, Dr. Geyer, Miss Myers, Dr. McGandy, Dr. Hegsted, Dr. Stare, Dr. Trulson, Dr. Portman, Dr. Vitale. DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION Fredrick J. Stare, S.M., Ph.D., M.D., A.M. (hon.), Professor of Nutrition and Head of the Department David M. Hegsted, S.M., Ph.D., Professor of Nutrition Robert P. Geyer, S.M., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Nutrition Jean Mayer, B.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., Associate Professof of Nutrition and Lecturer on the History of Public Health Martha F. Trulson, S.B., M.P.H., S.D. in Hyg., Associate Professor of Nutrition Stephen B. Andrus, S.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology Stanley N. Gershoff, A.B., S.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Nutrition Oscar W. Portman, S.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of Nutrition Joseph J. Vitale, S.M., S.D. in Hyg., Assistant Professor of Nutrition Bernard Lown, S.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine Maria Banasiewicz-Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Nutrition Robert B. McGandy, M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Nutrition Madge L. Myers, A.B., S.M., Instructor in Nutrition Patricia A. Stefanik, S.M., Instructor in Nutrition Edwin L. Prien, A.B., A.M., M.D., Clinical Research Associate in Nutrition F. Russell Olsen, A.B., Research Associate in Nutrition Leonardo Sinisterra, M.D., S.M. in Hyg., Reseach Associate in Nutrition (Absent 1962-63) Robert E. Clancy, M.D., Research Associate in Medicine Oscar M. Jankelson, M.D., Research Associate in Medicine Jolane P. Solomon, A.B., Ph.D., Research Associate in Nutrition Motoomi Nakamura, M.D., Dr.Med.Sc., Research Associate in Nutrition (Absent 19 62-63) Ethel J. Bowie, S.B., Assistant in Nutrition Dorothy Bruno, S.B., Assistant in Nutrition Atsushi Iwamoto, M.D., Ph.D., Research Fellow in Nutrition Paul N. Rozin, Ph.D., Research Fellow in Physiological Psychology in the Department of Nutrition 30