Carol Remmer Angle

Carol Remmer Angle is an American pediatrician, nephrologist, and toxicologist. Angle is known as one of the nation's leading researchers on lead poisoning. She is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska. Angle joined UNMC in 1954 and was one of the first women to serve as chair of an academic medical department (pediatrics). She also served as chief of pediatric nephrology, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical toxicology. In 1957, Angle along with Dr. Matilda McIntire, founded one of the country's first poison control centers. Angle is a founding member and a prior president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. For forty years, Angle served as an expert for NIEHS, National Institutes of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.

Education and training

Angle studied English literature at Wellesley College and graduated in 1948; she later attended Cornell Medical School, and took a residency at New York Hospital Pediatric. Afterward, she began working at th
University of Nebraska Hospital

Offices held and honors

* Director, Medical Education
Children's Memorial Hospital
Omaha, Nebraska, 1954-1967
* Director
Nebraska Master Poison Control Center
1957-1966
* State Coordinator, Nebraska Master Poison Control Center, 1957-1966
* Director, Pediatric Renal Clinic, University of Nebraska Hospital & Clinics, 1966-1984
* Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Nebraska Hospital, 1968-1974
* Program Chairman, American Association of Poison Control Centers, 1977-1979
* Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1971-1998
* Director, National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1974-1981
* Member, Toxicology Advisory Board, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1978-1982
* Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1981-1985
* Member
National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council
NIH, 1984-1987
* Director, Clinical Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1985-1998
* Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 1989-2002
* Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1999–present
* Honor Award

2003
* Honor Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center Legends Award, 200

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* Angle CR, Swanson SA: Arsenite enhances homocysteine-induced proliferation of fibroblasts in human aortic smooth muscle cells in B12 (Cobalamin) deficient media. Submitted to Environmental Health Perspectives, July 1997.
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References

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American pediatricians
American women pediatricians
American toxicologists
Living people
1927 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Nebraska Medical Center faculty
Wellesley College alumni
Weill Cornell Medical College alumni