Background
Stewart, Harold Leroy was born on August 6, 1899 in Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alexander and Lillie (Cox).
educator pathologist cancer investigator
Stewart, Harold Leroy was born on August 6, 1899 in Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alexander and Lillie (Cox).
Student, University Pennsylvania, 1920. Student, Dickinson College, 1922. Doctor of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, 1926.
Graduate, Army Medical School, Washington, 1929. Research fellow, Jefferson Medical College, 1930. Research fellow, Harvard, 1939.
Medical Doctor of Science (honorary), Jefferson Medical College, 1964. D.Medicine and Surgery (honorary), University Perugia, 1965. D.Medicine and Surgery (honorary), University Turku, Finland, 1970.
Doctor (honorary), Kagawa Medical School, Japan, 1992.
Intern Fitzimmons General Hospital, Denver, 1926-1927. Instructor to assistant professor pathology Jefferson Medical College, 1930-1937. Assistant pathologist Jefferson Medical College Hospital, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1929-1937.
Pathologist Office Cancer Investigations Harvard, United States Public Health Service, 1937-1939. Chief laboratory pathology National Cancer Institute, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland, 1939-1969. Chief pathologic anatomy department clinical center National Institutes of Health, 1954-1969.
Organizer Registry Experimental Cancers, from 1970, Science emeritus, from 1976. Principal investigator, head World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on Tumors Laboratory Animals, 1976-1996. Clinical professor pathology Georgetown University, since 1965.
Consultant Food and Drug Administration, 1969-1971, National Cancer Institute, 1970-1976, Armed Forces Institute Pathology, since 1950. Consultant, member study groups World Health Organization, 1957-1981, member expert advisory panel cancer, 1957-1981. Member subcommittee oncology National Research Council, 1947-1965, member committee pathology, 1958-1966, committee cancer diagnosis and therapy, 1951-1957, member committee animal models and genetic stocks, 1972-1975, chairman committee histologic classification Laboratory Animal Tumors, 1975-1979.
Chairman subcommittee classification rat liver tumors National Research Council (Laboratory Animal Tumors), 1976-1979. Chairman United States of America Committee International Council Societies Pathology, 1957-1962, 69-75. Chairman United States national committee International Union Against Cancer, 1953-1959, United States delegate, 1952-1974.
Member advisory board Leonard Wood Memorial, 1961-1966. Member committee to advance world-wide fight against cancer American Cancer Society, 1963-1976. Member medical research council Referees, New Zealand, 1987.
Trustee Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 1969-1972. Served as private United States Marine Corps, 1918-1919. Lieutenant Medical Corps United States Army, 1926-1929.
From major to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member Society Clinical Pathologists (Ward Burdick award 1957), American Association Cancer Research (president 1958-1959), American Society Experimental Pathology (honorary, president 1995), American Association Pathologists (Gold-headed Cane award 1978), College American Pathologists, Maryland Society Pathologists (president 1950-1951), Washington Society Pathologists (secretary-treasurer 1947-1951), International Academy Pathology (president 1953-1955, F.K. Mostofi award 1976), International Union Against Cancer (executive committee 1952-1970, vice president 1962), Massachusetts Medical Society, International Council Societies Pathology (president 1962), International Society Geography Pathology, Colegio Anatomico Brasilerio (honorary), Society Italiana di Cancerologia (honorary), Institute National de Cancerologia Mexico (honorary), Society Columbiana de Patologia (honorary), Society Belge d' Anatomie Pathologique (honorary), Society Peruana Cancerologia (honorary), Society Cryobiology, Society Toxicologic Pathologists (honorary), Japanese Cancer Society (honorary), Basic Foundation International Institute of Immanopathology Clinical Center Humablt University, Berlin (honorary science director), Purdy Stout Surgical Pathology Society (honorary), others.
Son of; married Cecelia Eleanor Finn, September 30, 1929. Children: Robert Campbell, Janet Eileen.