Shields Warren (February 26, 1898 – July 1, 1980) was an American

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. He was among the first to study the pathology of

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.Shields Warren
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, epidemiologist and cancer researcher.

Biography

He graduated with an A.B in 1918 from

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and with an M.D. in 1923 from

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. From 1923 to 1925 he was an assistant in pathology at

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and completed his medical residency there in 1927. At Harvard Medical School, he began teaching as an instructor in pathology in 1925, was promoted to assistant professor in 1936, and became a full professor of pathology in 1948. In 1927 he became a pathologist at New England Deaconess Hospital (which later became part of

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) and was promoted to pathologist-in-chief in 1946, serving in that post for 36 years. He also served as pathologist-in-chief at

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and at Pondville State Hospital and was a consultant for several other hospitals. He established New England Deaconess Hospital's Cancer Research Institute and served as the director of the Institute until he resigned from the directorship in 1968. On August 11, 1923, he married Alice Springfield. They had two children.

Awards and honors

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*Member of the

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*Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Clinical Pathology, American Society for Clinical Pathology, 1949 * Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award, American Diabetes Association, 1953 *Pathologist of the Year, Meritorious Service Award,

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, 1955 *Albert Einstein Medal and Award, 1962 * James Ewing Lecture, Society of Surgical Oncology, 1962 *Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1962 *Member of the

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, 1963 * American Cancer Society National Award, 1968 *

Enrico Fermi Award The Enrico Fermi Award is a scientific award conferred by the President of the United States. It is awarded to honor scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. It was establ ...

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, 1971 *Holmes Lecture, New England Roentgen Ray Society, 1972 *Gold Headed Cane Award, Association of Clinical Scientists, 1980

Endowed professorship

*Shields Warren Mallinckrodt Professorship of Clinical Research, Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School *Shields Warren Award, Boston University

Health Physics Society

*Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, 1974 *Founders Award, 1985

Professional service

*Trustee, American Board of Pathology, 1944–1958 * American Society for Experimental Pathology *

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President ...

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* National Academy of Sciences * National Aeronautics and Space Administration *

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Publications

*Exposure Rates and Protective Measures against Radiation. Warren, Shields. (February 15, 1963). Exposure Rates and Protective Measures against Radiation. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 107, No. 1: 18–20.

Textbooks

*Collected Reprints. Shields Warren. (1921). Pathology. * Sanitary Survey of Rochester, New Hampshire, 1922. Shields Warren. Harvard University Press, (1922). 114 pages. *The Sanitary Survey as an Instrument of Instruction in Medical Schools. Milton Joseph Rosenau, Shields Warren. (1924). 11 pages. *Medical Science for Everyday Use. Shields Warren. Lea & Febiger. (1927). 178 pages. * Synopsis of the Practice of Preventive Medicine: As Applied in the Basic Medical Sciences and Clinical Instruction at the Harvard Medical School. Shields Warren, editor. Harvard University Press, (1929). . 396 pages. *Salivary Gland Tumors. Neil W. Swinton, Shields Warren. (1938). *Tumors of Dermal Appendages. Harvard University. Cancer Commission, Shields Warren, Olive Gates, Wesley N. Warvi. (1943). 79 pages. *A Handbook for the Diagnosis of Cancer of the Uterus: By Use of Vaginal Smears. Olive Gates, Dr. Shields Warren, George N. Papanicolaou. Harvard University Press. (1947). 182 pages. *Introduction to Neuropathology. Samuel Pendleton Hicks, Shields Warren. McGraw-Hill. (1950). 494 pages. *Atomic Bomb Injury—Radiation, Charles Little Dunham, Eugene P. Cronkite, George Veach Le Roy, Shields Warren. Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. (1951). 13 pages. *The Cancer Problem. Volume 1 of Series on the early recognition of cancer. Shields Warren. American Cancer Society. (1954). 27 pages. *National Nuclear Energy Series. Manhattan Project Technical Section. Division 8 – Vol. 8: Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan. Ashley W. Oughterson, Shields Warren. McGraw-Hill (1956). 477 pages. *The Pathology of Ionizing Radiation, 1961. Monograph in the Carl Vernon Weller lecture series. Shields Warren. The University of Michigan. (1961). 42 pages. *The Pathology of Diabetes Mellitus. Shields Warren, Philip Medford LeCompte, Merle A. Legg. The University of Michigan. (1966). 528 pages. *Tumors of the Thyroid Gland. Volume 4 of Atlas of tumor pathology: Second series. William A. Meissner, Shields Warren. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. (1982). 135 pages.

References

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