Stanley G. Schultz (October 26, 1931 – October 23, 2014) was an American physician and scientist whose work led to the development of

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. He held the Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences at the

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(UTHealth) before becoming the center's medical school dean.

Biography

After growing up in

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, Schultz completed his undergraduate studies at

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and attended

New York University School of Medicine NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, with the other being the Long Island School of ...

. After postgraduate work at

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and military service at the School of Aerospace Medicine at

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, Schultz took faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and the

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is a medical school of the University of Pittsburgh, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The School of Medicine, also known as Pitt Med, is consistently ranked as a "Top Medical School" by '' ...

. He joined the physiology faculty at the

in 1979, and he held the school's Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences. He was named interim dean of the UT Houston Medical School in 2003, then served as dean in 2004 and 2005 before retiring for health reasons. Schultz's scientific work studied ion transport in the small intestine, and some of his research findings led to the development of

. He was the 1992-93 president of the

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. He received Thailand's

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in 2007. He was elected to membership in the

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and the European Academy of Sciences. Schultz died of cancer in 2014 in

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. He had moved to the area recently to be closer to his children and grandchildren.

References

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