William Christopher Stadie (June 15, 1886 – September 12, 1959) was a researcher, a

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specialist. He was John Herr Musser Emeritus Professor of Research Medicine at the

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. He also served as an editor of the ''

'', the journal of the

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. Other distinctions included: honorary degree of the

, the Phillips Medal of the

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(1941), the Kober Medal for 1955 from the Association of American Physicians and the Banting Medal of the American Diabetes Association. He was also elected to the United States

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(1945) and the

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(1947). During the

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Stadie invented

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for treatment of

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, a condition resulting from

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.Rockefeller University Hospital Centennial: Oxygen Therapy for Pneumonia
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Career

Stadie graduated from New York University in 1907 and received his M.D. from

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in 1916. He served in World War I in the

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Medical Corps. Stadie was part of the medical faculty at Yale University from 1921 to 1924. In 1924 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania as an associate professor. He was promoted to the Musser chair in 1941.

References

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