The US' National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, has announced the release of an extensive selection from the papers of surgeon Dr. Clarence Dennis on the Library's Profiles in Science website. Dr. Dennis (1909-2005) had developed one of the first heart-lung bypass machines.
With this addition, the number of prominent researchers, public health officials and promoters of medical research whose personal and professional records are presented on Profiles has grown to 32.
Best known as a surgeon and inventor, Dr. Dennis was also a dedicated medical educator and administrator whose trainees went on to expand the boundaries of the surgical treatment of heart disease. After 11 years on the surgical faculty at Minnesota, he chaired the department of surgery at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn from 1951 to 1971, building the department and developing residency and research programmes. He was an active member of many professional societies for much of his career, including the American College of Surgeons and the National Society for Medical Research. Working with such groups, he helped to set standards for surgical education and ethics, shape amendments to the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (to regulate the growing number of biomedical devices on the market), and defend the use of animals in medical research.
Profiles in Science features digitised correspondence, published articles, notebook excerpts, drafts of reports and photographs from the Clarence Dennis Papers at the National Library of Medicine.
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