New Jersey College of Medicine - Journal Yearbook (Jersey City, NJ)

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MORTIMER LEONARD SCHVVARTZ, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, has the distinction of directing the best organized course at New Jersey College of Medicine, Physical Diagnosis. His unanimous nomination for the golden applev served to demonstrate that students appreciate his unceasing eittorts to insure that everyone is Well prepared for clinical clerk- ships. Mort has been Director of Physical Diagnosis since 1958. This year he took on added responsibilities as Director of Clinical Cardiology. In the past several years he has written several papers on various aspects of cardiology. His special article, Physiolologic Basis for the Heart Sounds and Their Clinical Significance, is an important part of every New Jersey College of Medicine gradu- ate's file. .if L PHILIP H. HENNEMAN, M.D., Associate- Professor of Medicine, is the scientific director of the College of Medicine's Clinical Research Center. Before coming to the New jersey College of Medicine, he served for eight years on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, his alma mater. Among Dr. Hennemanis many research interests, the study of human growth hormone and clinical problems associated with growth command a preeminent position. Aside from his many endeavors on these topics, Dr. Henneman has evidenced a similar interest in the study of renal calculi. TIMOTHY I. RECAN, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, received his M.D. degree at Boston University Medical School in 1952 and completed his internship at the City of Detroit Receiving Hospital. He subsequently be- came a research fellow and Assistant Professor of Medicine at VVayne State University College of Medicine. Since 1961 he has been an Estab- lished Investigator of the American Heart As- sociation. As Director of the Division of Car- diovascular Diseases and the Thomas I. White Cardiopulmonary Institute, Dr. Regan is, cur- rently engaged in studies which are directed toward assessing in vivo the changes in biochemi- cal properties of the left ventricle that occur under the following conditions: during the initia- tion of diminished left ventricular functiong dur- ing the appearance of. ventricular arrhythmiasg and during the onset of muscle necrosis.

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CARROLL M. LEEVY, M.D., Professor of Medicine, was graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1944. He is one of the original faculty members of this school fol- lowing its establishment in 1956 as Seton Hall College of Medicine. Dr. Leevy is widely ac- claimed as a world's authority on hepatic metabolism, liver disease, and nutritional diseases in man. He is presently engaged in a multifaceted research program focusing primarily on the study of cell biology with particular emphasis on the effects of alcohol ingestion on hepatic metabolism at the molecular, enzymatic level. If '17 RICHARD CHAMBERS, M.D., Professor of Medicine, is the director of our neurological service. A graduate of Oxford University, this British-born scholar has previously served on the medical faculties of Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto. At the end of this academic year, Dr. Chambers intends to terminate his tenure at New Jersey College of Medicine and plans to assume the chair of the neurological division at Ieiferson Medical School, Philadelphia.

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NORMAN LASKER, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, received his medical degree from the University of Illinois in 1953. He completed his internship at Mount Sinai Hospital and his residency at Iersey City Medical Center. Dr. Lasker's past projects and scientific papers have dealt principally with hypo- natremia and renal hypertension. At present, his group is actively engaged in two projects: The first is an attempt to standardize the conditions under which split renal function studies are performed, and the second is a pilot study of chronic peritoneal dialysis. Its aim is to determine the practicality and efficacy of this approach to end-stage renal disease as compared to chronic hemodialysis. 5 'in Q Q, s LL... ,.11.ia.. n.- RALPH HEIMER, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry. He gradu- ated from City College of New York in 1948 and received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1956. He then served on the faculty at Cornell until 1953 when he came to the New Jersey College of Medicine. Dr. I-Ieimer's special interests in protein chemistry, particularly as it relates to the structure and func- tion of antibodies, is rapidly making him an author- ity in the Held of Rheumatology. Most medical students greatly appreciated Dr. Heimer's availa- bility and patience as they floundered through their laboratory experiments in Sophomore Biochemistry. JOHN I. CALABRO, M.D., came to jersey City Medical Center in 1956 as Chief Medical Resident. The previous year he had held the same position on the Harvard service at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Calabro then continued his training in Rheuma- tology at Hammersmith Hospital, London, England, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Returning to Jersey City in 1958, he became Assistant Professor of Medicine. Among his numerous monographs, his description of foot manifestations in Rheumatoid Arthritis is considered classic. His lecture series is always one of the high spots of the junior medi- cal clerkship. Dr. Calabro's active participation in many local and national medical societies makes him one of the busiest members of the faculty. 'I37