Carleton Burke Chapman (Rhodes 1936)
Medical Research, Medical Education. Philanthropy. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Harvard.
1980 to 1985 - Chairman of the Department of Medical History at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[5]
1980 - Retired at the age of 65 but continued to follow his interest in medical history and ethics.[5]
Publihsed Pysicians, Lawm, and Ethics” and a biography Shaw Billings entitled “Order Out of Chaos: John Shaw Billings and America’s Coming of Age”.
1975 to 1980 - President of The Commonwealth Fund. During his tenure, he prioritized grantmaking to strengthen medical education. The Interface Program, one of the Fund’s primary initiatives during Chapman’s presidency, sought to reform premedical and preclinical education.[8] Chapman’s successor, noted that Chapman “was in medicine, but he was truly a renaissance person.”[8]
1966 to 1973 - Dean of Dartmouth Medical School.[3]
1964 to 1965 - President of the American Heart Association.[8]
From 1953 to 1966 - Chief Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine at Universoty of Texas Southwestern.[3] Created the first Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Founded the Pauline and Adolph Winberger Laboratory for Cardiopulmonary Research at UT Southwestern. Planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, a pivotal and oft-cited study in exercise scienc[3]
Upon his return, Chapman was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota’s Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene.[8]
Post WW2 - From 1944 to 1946, he was in the Public Health Service while stationed in the Middle East, China and Indonesia.[5]
1944, Graduated Harvard (MPH).
1941 - Graduated Harvard (MD).
From 1936 - Rhodes Scholar, St. Johns College, College, University of Oxford.[1][5]
Died 10 Dec 2000, from Not Known. Age 85.
Note: Brother … Carelton George Chapman (1886 to 1971) - Early Bird of Aviation.
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[4] - Carleton B. Chapman, M.D., M.P.H., February 1963 (Picture)
[5] Dartmouth Library Archives and Manuscripts - Chapman, Carleton B., 1915-2000
[6] - Symposium: Anticoagulants and Coronary Artery Disease Introduction by CARLETON B. CHAPMAN
[7] - Heart.org - History of the American Heart Association
[8] - Carleton B. Chapman, M.D, President - Years: 1975 to 1980
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