Background
Starr, Isaac was born on March 6, 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaac and Mary Savage (Barclay).
Starr, Isaac was born on March 6, 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Isaac and Mary Savage (Barclay).
Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1916. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1920.
House officer Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1920-1922. Instructor pharmacology University Pennsylvania, 1922-1928, assistant professor clinical pharmacology, 1928-1933, associate in medicine, 1928-1933, Hartzell research professor therapeutics, 1933-1945, 48-61, emeritus professor therapeutic research, 1961-1989, professor therapeutic research, dean School Medicine, 1945-1948. Consultant cardiovascular disease Selective Service of Pennsylvania.
Member revision committee United States Pharmocopea, 1930-1950. Member committee on drug addiction and narcotics National Research Council, 1947-1989, chairman, 1947-1960, member committee on problems of alcohol, 1949-1989. Chairman Office of Naval Research Advisory Group on Burn Program, 1951.
Consultant United States Naval Air Development Center, 1951-1964.
Member American Medical Association (chairman council on drugs 1959-1962), American Society Clinical Investigation (president 1939), Association American Physicians, American Physiological Society, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Heart Association (Albert Lasker award 1957), College Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Club, Princeton of Philadelphia Club.
Son of; married Edith Nelson Page, April 22, 1922. Children: Isaac, Vidal Davis Staff Hoyt, Lynford Lardner, Harold Page.