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Michele E. Raney
Michele Eileen Raney (born 1951) is an United States of America, American physician who was the first woman to over winter at an Antarctica inland station in 1979. Raney continued her association with the American Polar Society as a consultant, trainer and board member. Life Raney attended the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California where she qualified as a doctor. She practised emergency medicine before she attended Stanford University to study anesthesiology. Raney was the first woman to over winter at an inland station in Antarctica as the physician at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in 1979. The first American women to over winter in Antarctica were Mary Odile Cahoon and Mary Alice McWhinnie in 1974, although the first woman to be there in the winter was in 1947. Raney was supported by the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation whilst she studied the effect of isolation on the immune system over a number of years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keck School Of Medicine Of USC
The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians, biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and treats patients. Founded in 1885, it is the second oldest medical school in California after the UCSF School of Medicine. It is located on the university's health sciences campus in northeastern Los Angeles which is adjacent to the Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods. For the physician class of 2024, the average GPA was 3.8 and the average MCAT score was 517. Programs In addition to a medical degree (MD), the school offers various combined degrees, such as MD/MPH, MD/PhD and MD/MBA. The school offers separate master's and doctoral degree programs in various biomedical fields. It also offers programs in physician assistantship and nurse anesthesia. The joint MD-PhD program is part of a cooperation with the California Institute of Technology located in nearby Pasadena. USC also of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institute. Established in 1946, OMRF is dedicated to understanding and developing more effective treatments for human disease. Andrew S. Weyrich, Ph.D. serves as president of OMRF, which employs more than 500 scientific and administrative staff members. OMRF's scientists, who include a member of the National Academy of Sciences, hold more than 700 U.S. and international patents and have spun off 11 biotech companies. Discoveries at OMRF led to Xigris, the first FDA-approved drug for the treatment of severe sepsis, and Ceprotin, a therapy for people suffering from a rare and life-threatening blood disorder known as protein C deficiency. Research at OMRF also identified the enzyme believed responsible for Alzheimer's disease and laid the groundwork for OncoVue, a breast cancer risk assessment test. History Beginning from discussions among the alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley (California), Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census was 403,455, making it the List of United States cities by population, 48th-most populous city in the United States of America and the List of largest California cities by population, 9th-most populous city in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2020 census population of 909,235, making it the Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 62nd-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The more built-up portion of the metro area that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield, Oildale, California, Oildale, and Rosedale, California, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIH Health Hospital - Downey language, ISO 639-3 code
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PIH can refer to: * Partners In Health, health organization *Permanent income hypothesis, an economic model * Pipeline Induction Heat (PIH), coating provider for oil and gas pipelines *Pocatello Regional Airport * Pregnancy-induced hypertension *Pitkern Pitkern, also known as Pitcairn-Norfolk or Pitcairnese, is a language spoken on Pitcairn and Norfolk islands. It is a mixture of English and Tahitian, and has been given many classifications by scholars, including cant, patois, and Atlanti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Medical Association
The California Medical Association (CMA) is a professional organization based in California that advocates on behalf of nearly 50,000 physicians in legislative, legal, regulatory, economic, and social issues. The organization was founded in 1856 and is a member of the American Medical Association. History The CMA and its leaders: * Started the state public health department in the 1870s; * Made immunizations compulsory for school-children in the 1880s; * Began looking at ways to fund healthcare for the poor in the 1930s; * Performed what were some of the first cornea transplants, and set up some of the first organ transplant guidelines in the country; and * Started California's first medical schools, which later became Stanford University and the University of California. Organization On 12 March 1856, the Medical Society of the state of California held its first meeting at Pioneer Hall on "J" Street in what is now Old Town Sacramento. The society's first president, Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Society Of Anesthesiologists
The California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), Inc., is a component society of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc., in the state of California. History CSA was founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1953 as a voluntary, non-profit association of physicians specializing in anesthesiology practicing in California. Today, the elected officers and Board of Directors are individuals dedicated to the preservation of the unique specialty of anesthesiology. The CSA works closely with the ASA to protect the interests of all anesthesiologists, on a national, state and local level. Mission of the organization The California Society of Anesthesiologists is a physician organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of the profession of anesthesiology, to fostering excellence through continuing medical education, and to serving as an advocate for anesthesiologists and their patients. Governance The CSA is governed by its House of Delegates, which is composed of CSA Deleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raney Peak
Raney Peak () is a symmetrical peak rising to between Rim Glacier and Sprocket Glacier, Victoria Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Michele E. Raney, who was a physician with the 1979 winter party at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is the United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction (not sovereignty) of the United States. The station is located on the .... She was the first female to winter at an Antarctic inland station. References Mountains of Victoria Land {{VictoriaLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Alice McWhinnie
Mary Alice McWhinnie (August 10, 1922 – March 17, 1980) was an American biologist, professor at DePaul University and an authority on krill. From Chicago, Illinois, she was the first woman to sail for two months in Antarctic waters aboard the NSF's research vessel, USNS Eltanin. The National Science Foundation eventually allowed her to winter over at McMurdo Station and in 1974, she became the first American woman to serve as chief scientist at an Antarctic research station. Education and early career Mary Alice McWhinnie received her bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from DePaul University in 1944 and 1946. She began teaching at DePaul University in 1946 in the Department of Biological Sciences as a Graduate Assistant and was its chairman from 1966 to 1968. She received her doctorate from Northwestern University in 1952. Scientific career In 1962, she and her research assistant, Phyllis Marciniack, were selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considered among the most prestigious universities in the world. Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, Leland and Jane Stanford in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Leland Stanford was a List of United States senators from California, U.S. senator and former List of governors of California, governor of California who made his fortune as a Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad), railroad tycoon. The school admitted its first students on October 1, 1891, as a Mixed-sex education, coeducational and non-denominational institution. Stanford University struggled financially after the death of Leland Stanford in 1893 and again after much of the campus was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Odile Cahoon
Mary Odile Cahoon OSB (July 21, 1929 – October 2, 2011) was an American Benedictine nun who was among the first women to do research in Antarctica. In 1974, Mary Odile Cahoon and Mary Alice McWhinnie became the first women scientists to overwinter at the main American base in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, with 128 men, although the first woman to be there in the winter was in 1947 and other countries had taken women to Antarctica for some years previously. Education, early life, and career Mary Odile Cahoon was born in Houghton, Michigan, on July 21, 1929, as the daughter of William Cahoon and Ruth Smothers. At the Houghton High School, she was named valedictorian of the class of 1947. She grew up in upper Michigan, and attended private college at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. She received her MS degree from DePaul University in Chicago where she worked with McWhinnie. Cahoon held a doctoral degree in Biology from the University of Toronto in Canada (1961) having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
