Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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 A Dr. Harry Shay, a native of Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1921 where he later became an Instructor in Internal Medicine. He was named Chief of the Gas-tro-intestinal Clinic at the old Jewish Hospital in 1928. In the year 1933, Dr. Shay was co-recipient of the Alvarcnga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. In this same year he was appointed Director of the Medical Research Laboratory of the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This laboratory later became Fels Research Institute and received international plaudits in the field of gastroenterology. In 1937, Dr. Shay was co-recipient of the first award of the International Congress of Radiology. In 1947, he became Professor of Clinical Medicine at Temple University Medical School. He was also visiting lecturer in Gastroenterology at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and a consultant to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Frankford Hospital, and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, and a senior member of the American Gastroenterological Association. Dr. Shay was also an affiliate of the Royal Society of Medicine, England, and a corresponding member of the Academia de Mcdicina dc Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Memoriam Harry Shay M.D. 1898-1963 Dr. Shay was also associated with the following societies: American Physiological Society, the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for Cancer Research, American Gastroenterological Association, Sigma Xi, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, American Medical Association, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Alpha Omega Alpha, National Medical Society, and the American Federation for Clinical Research. He was also a member of the Expert Panel on Carcinogenicity, Commission on Cancer Research of the Unio Intemationalis Contra Cancrum. Dr. Shay wrote more than three hundred research articles on cancer, physiology, gastroenterology, and nutrition. His numerous scientific innovations included the “Shay’s rat,’’ consisting of ligated rat pylorus. His work became milestones in the physio-pathology of gastroenterology. He is survived by his wife, Bertha; two sons, Robert and Jonathan; a sister; and grandchildren. His passing marks the loss of an energetic and dedicated scientist. The Temple University Medical Center will miss this dynamic gentleman who correlated the basic sciences into clinical practice during his productive lifetime. 12

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strati his sincere interest in the student and his eager willingness to teach. These are qualities that make a group of concrete and glass structures a medical school. To you, I)r. Lauby, in appreciation of your dedication to us, we, the Class of 1964. dedicate our yearbook. 11

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In Memoriam Francis A. Vazuka M.D 1921-1963 It seems that an important role of the sick and dying is to help others close to them with their grief and apprehension. I felt this strongly as I watched the loving all of us, his many friends.” Dr. Francis A. Vazuka was bom in Manchester, Connecticut, and attended the University of Connecticut and Yale University School of Medicine. He received his degree in medicine from Yale in 1947 and served residencies in neurology at several medical centers, including the New England Center Hospital in Boston and Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. D.C. During the Korean War, he served with the Armed Forces as Chief of Neurology at Osaka Hospital in Japan. Returning to the United States, Dr. Vazuka was appointed Chief of Neurology at the Richmond Veterans Administration Hospital in Virginia. In 1957 lie came to Temple University Hospital as an Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology. He was also on the staff of the Germantown Hospital and was founder and director of the Advanced Brain Research Institute of Philadelphia. Dr. Vazuka was a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, American Medical Association. Philadelphia Neurological Society, and the American Academy of Neurolog)’. At Woman's Medical College Hospital, he was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry. care that Frank Vazuka took of Francis H. Hoffman, M.D. Dr. Vazuka's motion picture and booklet, “Essentials of the Neurological Examination, produced by Smith, Kline. French Laboratories, received international acclaim and was cited for its excellence by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1962. This film has been translated from English into French, Japanese. Gentian, and Spanish. It has been useful for medical students everywhere as a valuable guide to the Neurological Examination. Dr. Vazuka was also involved in extensive research on muscle relaxants, tranquilizers and psychotrophic drugs. More recently, lie pursued basic research on the physiological state of sleep, and for several months he lectured in Hawaii and Japan with his wife, Dr. Jean Tierney Vazuka. This respected, dedicated scientist and physician died at forty-one years of age of leukemia. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Jean T. Vazuka. and their two sons, Stephen and Paul. Aware of his impending fate, he exemplified courage by his unceasing capacity to sene as a physician. 13