Carol Remmer Angle is an American pediatrician,
nephrologist
Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (r ...
, and
toxicologist
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. Angle is known as one of the nation's leading researchers on
lead poisoning
Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body. The brain is the most sensitive. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, inferti ...
. She is professor emeritus at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health science center in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1869 and chartered as a private medical college in 1881, UNMC became part of the University of Nebraska System in 1902. Ra ...
(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
Nephrology (from Greek'' nephros'' "kidney", combined with the suffix ''-logy'', "the study of") is a specialty of adult internal medicine and pediatric medicine that concerns the study of the kidneys, specifically normal kidney function (r ...
, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical
toxicology
Toxicology is a scientific discipline, overlapping with biology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medicine, that involves the study of the adverse effects of chemical substances on living organisms and the practice of diagnosing and treating expos ...
. 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
The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1958 that represents the nation's 55 poison centers. The AAPCC supports poison centers in their public health mission to prevent poisonin ...
.
For forty years, Angle served as an expert for
NIEHS
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,
National Institutes of Health
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The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U ...
and
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.
Education and training
Angle studied English literature at
Wellesley College
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficia ...
and graduated in 1948; she later attended
Cornell Medical School
The Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York.
Weill Cornell Medicine is affiliated with NewY ...
, and took a residency at New York Hospital Pediatric. Afterwards, she began working at th
University of Nebraska Hospital Residency
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
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