Background
Burchenal, Joseph Holland was born on December 21, 1912 in Milford, Delaware, United States. Son of Caleb E. and Mary E. (Holl) Burchenal.
Burchenal, Joseph Holland was born on December 21, 1912 in Milford, Delaware, United States. Son of Caleb E. and Mary E. (Holl) Burchenal.
Student, Princeton University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1937.
Rotating intern Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, 1937-1938. Intern pediatrics New York Hospital. Also research pathology Cornell University, 1938-1939.
Assistant resident medicine Boston City Hospital, 1940-1942. Special fellow medicine Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1946-1949, assistant attending physician, 1949-1952, attending physician, 1952-1983, attending physician emeritus, from 1983, chief chemotherapy service, 1952-1964, associate medical director for clinical investigation, 1964-1966, director clinical investigation, 1966-1983. Research fellow medicine Harvard, 1940-1942.
Research fellow Sloan-Kettering Institute, 1946-1948, associate, 1948-1952, member, 1952-1983, member emeritus, 1983-2006, vice president, 1964-1972, field coordinator human cancer, 1973-1980, head Applied Therapy Laboratory. Assistant professor clinical medicine Cornell University, 1949-1950, assistant professor medicine, 1950-1951, associate professor, 1951-1952. Professor Cornell University (Sloan-Kettering division), 1952-1955.
Professor medicine Cornell University Medical College, 1955-1980, emeritus, 1980-2006. Special consultant clinical panel Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center, 1955-1964. Special consultant public health service, hematology study section National Institutes of Health, 1955-1958.
Consultant American Cancer Society, 1958-1964. Chairman United States national committee International Union Against Cancer, 1960-1963, chairman chemotherapy panel of research commission, 1962-1966. Chairman expert committee on cancer chemotherapy World Health Organization, 1961, member expert advisory panel on cancer, 1961-1979.
Chairman chemotherapy advisory committee National Cancer Institute, 1970-1971. Member national panel consultants conquest of cancer United States Senate Committee Labor and Public Welfare, 1970. Consultant in oncology Stamford (Connecticut), St. Albans (New York ) Naval hospitals.
Member Republican Town Meeting, Darien, Connecticut, 1957-1965. Served with Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for Cancer Research (president 1965-1966), European, International, American societies hematology, American Society Tropical Medicine, Society Study Blood, American Federation Clinical Research, New York Academy of Sciences, Harvey Society, American Society Pediatric Research (representative to division medical science National Research Council 1955-1958), Society for Pediatric Research, American Society Clinical Oncology, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, New York County Medical Society, New York State Medical Society, American Institute Nutrition, Leukemia Society of America (vice president medical and science affairs 1970-1975, chairman medical and science advisory committee 1970-1974), James Ewing Society, Academia Nacional de Medicina de Buenos Aires (correspondent), Czechoslovak Medical Society (honorary), Brazilian National Academy Medicine (correspondent).
Married Margaret Pembroke Thom, October 15, 1938. Married Joan Barclay Riley, March 20, 1948. Children– Mary Holland, Elizabeth Payne, Joan Littlefield, Barbara Fahys, Caleb Wells, David Holland, Joseph Emory Barclay.