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Alexander Duncan Langmuir
Schultz MG , Schaffner W . Emerg Infect Dis 2015 21 (9) 1635-1637 Alex Langmuir was born in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in New Jersey. His uncle, Irving Langmuir, a physicist and chemist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932. At Harvard College, Alex Langmuir tried to follow in his uncle’s footsteps, but he found that the mathematics of advanced physics was beyond him and thus decided to pursue a career in medicine. He received his AB (cum laude) in 1931 from Harvard and his MD in 1935 from Cornell University Medical College. As a college student, Langmuir was inspired by Massachusetts Commissioner of Health George Hoyt Bigelow to enter the field of public health. His first 2 jobs were with the New York State Health Department; he began as a medical consultant and then became an assistant district health officer in Albany. After graduating with an MPH from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1940, Langmuir became a deputy commissioner of health in Westchester County, New York. His family was dismayed that he chose a career in public health rather than clinical medicine, but Langmuir expressed in his later years that his time in local public health taught him lessons that were fundamental to his achievements. From 1942 to 1946, he served as an epidemiologist with the Armed Forces Epidemiologic Board’s Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases, stimulating his lifelong interest in influenza. In 1946, Langmuir returned to Johns Hopkins University as an associate professor of epidemiology. However, by 1949 he was restive in academia and was attracted to the challenge of becoming the first chief epidemiologist of the newly established Communicable Disease Center (now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]) in Atlanta, Georgia, a position he held for over 20 years. When Langmuir retired from CDC, he became a visiting professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and, later, a visiting professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He wrote extensively on all phases of epidemiology and public health surveillance on a global basis and was recognized internationally as an assertive public health authority. |
Robert Koch
Schultz MG . Emerg Infect Dis 2011 17 (3) 547-9 This is a photograph of Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch in Germany and Louis Pasteur in France were the 2 main founders of the science of bacteriology. Koch is best known for his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the organism that causes tuberculosis. For this discovery, Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. |
The National Exposure Registry: history and lessons learned
Schultz MG , Sapp JH 2nd , Cusack CD , Fink JM . J Environ Health 2010 72 (7) 20-5 The National Exposure Registry (NER) was created as a comprehensive group of data repositories that sought, over time, to relate specific environmental exposures to dioxin, trichloroethylene (TCE), benzene, and trichloroethane (TCA) to registrants' health conditions. Some parts of the NER were well conceived, whereas others were not. The most important design deficiency of the NER was its inability to adequately assess exposure. This was the key missing element and the Achilles heel of the NER program. At least three other important issues were never satisfactorily resolved in the design of the NER. They were unverified self-reporting, appropriate control groups, and the use of biomarkers. The many health effects that were observed to be in excess when compared with national norms might be explained by methodological differences in data analysis and reliance on self-reported nonverified data. Creating and maintaining a population-based chemical exposure registry is a more difficult challenge than creating and maintaining an outcome registry, such as a cancer registry. |
Photo quiz: Who is this man? Henry Rose Carter
Schultz MG . Emerg Infect Dis 2009 15 (10) 1681-4 He discovered the extrinsic incubation period of yellow fever. |
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