Lecture 1 Flashcards

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Noah Webster

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  • Authored “History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases” and dictionary
  • One of the country’s first epidemiologists
  • West Hartford native and Yale alumnus
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Charles A Lindsley

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  • Dean of Yale medical school
  • reorganized city’s board of health and served as health director
  • secretary of connecticut state board of health and president of APHA
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CEA Winslow

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  • Yale’s first chair of public health
  • wrote nearly 600 books/articles
  • editor for several journals
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Helen Robertson Gage

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  • first woman to graduate with yale MPH and DrPH
  • thesis: history of influenza epidemics to 1889
  • served as health officer in Suffield CT
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John Rodman Paul

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  • assistant professor of medicine at yale 1928
  • established yale poliomyelitis study unit in 1931
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Dorothy Horstmann

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  • demonstrated poliovirus reached the nervous system through blood
  • first female full professor at yale
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Frank Black

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  • third scientist in the world to use the measles vaccines in humans
  • served as head of division of microbio in YSPH (EMD precursor)
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Wilber G Downs

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  • Downs fellowship
  • moved rockefeller foundation virus laboratory to YSPH
  • first director of arbovirus research unit
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Robert Shope

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  • Yale arbovirus research unit 1964-1994
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Jordi Casals-Ariet and Sonja Buckley

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  • isolated Lassa Fever Virus
  • Casals-Ariet fell ill
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Alfred Evans

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  • investigated role of Epstein-Barr virus
  • Yale 1966-1994
  • epidemiology definition
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LEPH

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  • completed in 1964
  • funds from Rockefeller foundation
  • architect Philip Johnson
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Stephen Malawista and Allen Steere

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  • 1975, cluster of cases
  • Characterized Lyme
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Scott O’Neill

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  • Wolbachia
  • founded world mosquito program in australia
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Peter Hotez

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  • Pediatric ID fellowship and lab at LEPH
  • Hookworm pathogenesis
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Joshua Lederberg

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  • discovered recombination
  • received doctorate at yale
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Walsh McDermott

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  • Use AB responsibly
  • Helped deploy penicillin to civilian use
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Selman Waksman

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  • discovered actinomycin in the soil
  • coined phrase antibiotics
  • ethical use of ABs