Shields Warren

Shields Warren
Born	(1898-02-26)February 26, 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	July 1, 1980(1980-07-01) (aged 82) Mashpee, Massachusetts Old age
Residence	American
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Health physics Pathology Biological effects of ionizing radiation
Institutions	U.S. Navy Harvard Medical School New England Deaconess Hospital U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Alma mater	Boston University Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1923
Notable students	Eleanor Josephine MacDonald John D. Boice, Jr.
Known for	The Buchenwald touch
Influences	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (anatomical Papier-mâché models) Harvey Cushing Stuart Harvey Mudd Hugh Cabot
Influenced	Eleanor Josephine MacDonald William Avison Meissner John D. Boice, Jr.
Notable awards	Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Clinical Pathology American Society of Clinical Pathology, 1949 Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award American Diabetes Association, 1953 Pathologist of the Year, Meritorious Service Award, College of American Pathologists, 1955 James Ewing Lecture Society of Surgical Oncology, 1962 American Cancer Society National Award, 1968 Enrico Fermi Award, US DOE, 1971 Albert Einstein Medal and Award Holmes Lecture, New England Roentgen Ray Society, 1972 Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, Health Physics Society, 1974 Gold Headed Cane Award, Association of Clinical Scientists, 1980 Founders Award, Health Physics Society, 1985 National Academy of Sciences

Shields Warren

Shields Warren (26 February 1898 – 1 July 1980) was an American pathologist. He was among the first to study the pathology of radioactive fallout.^[1][2][3] Warren influenced and mentored Eleanor Josephine Macdonald, epidemiologist and cancer researcher.^[4]

Awards and honors

• Shields Warren Festschrift^[5]
• Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Clinical Pathology, American Society for Clinical Pathology, 1949^[6]
• Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement Award, American Diabetes Association, 1953
• Pathologist of the Year, Meritorious Service Award, College of American Pathologists, 1955
• James Ewing Lecture, Society of Surgical Oncology, 1962
• American Cancer Society National Award, 1968
• Enrico Fermi Award, US DOE, 1971
• Albert Einstein Medal and Award.
• 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
• U.S. Department of Defense
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Veterans' Administration

Publications

• Exposure Rates and Protective Measures against Radiation. Warren, Shields. (15 February 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). ISBN 9780674365308. 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.

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