Stewart George Wolf

Background

Wolf, Stewart George was born on January 12, 1914 in Baltimore. Son of Stewart George and Angeline (Griffing) Wolf.

Education

Student, Phillips Academy, 1927-1931; student, Yale University, 1931-1933; Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1934; Doctor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 1938; M.D. (honorary), University Göteborg, Sweden, 1968.

Career

Intern, New York Hospital, 1938-1939; resident medicine, New York Hospital, 1939-1942; National Research Council fellow, New York Hospital, 1941-1942; research fellow, Bellevue Hospital, 1939-1942; clinical associate visiting neuropsychiatrist, Bellevue Hospital, 1946-1952; research head injury and motion sickness Harvard neurological unit, Boston City Hospital, 1942-1943; assistant, then associate professor medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1946-1952; professor, head department medicine, U. Oklahoma, 1952-1967; Regents professor medicine, psychiatry and behavioral science, U. Oklahoma, since 1967; professor physiology, U. Oklahoma, 1967-1969; director, Marine biomedical Institute, University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1969-1978; director emeritus, Marine biomedical Institute, University Texas Medical Branch, since 1978; professor medicine university, also professor internal medicine and physiology medical branch, Marine biomedical Institute, University Texas Medical Branch, 1970-1977; professor medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, since 1977. Vice president medical affairs St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1977-1982. Director Totts Gap Institute, Bangor, Pennsylvania, since 1958.

Supervisor clinical activities Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 1953-1955, head psychosomatic and neuromuscular section, 1952-1967, head Neuroscience section, 1967-1969. Advising committee Space Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960-1961. Consultant internal medicine Veterans Administration Hospital., Oklahoma City, 1952-1969.

Consultant (European Office), Paris, Office International Research, National Institutes of Health, 1963-1964. Member education and supply panel National Advisory Commision on Health Manpower, 1966-1967. Member National Advisory Heart Council, 1961-1965, United States Phamacopeia Scope Panel on Gastroenterology, Regent National Library.

Medicine, 1965-1969; chairman, 1968-1969. Member National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, 1978-1982. Executive vice president Frontiers Science Foundation, 1967-1969.

Member science advisory board Muscular Dystrophy Assns. American, Inc., 1974-1991, chairman, 1980-1989. Member gastrointestinal drug advising committee Food and Drug Administration, 1974-1977.

Board International Cardiology Federation. Member board visitors department biology Boston University, 1978-1988. Member visiting committee Center for Social Research, Lehigh University, 1980-1990.

Chairman advising committee Wood Institute on History of Medicine, College Physicians, Philadelphia, 1980-1990, member program committee College Physicians, 1990-1991. Director Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging, since 1988.

Achievements

• Stewart George Wolf has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Human gastric function;: An experimental study of a man and his stomach

    (London 1943 Oxford. 8vo., 195pp., photo illus. Good, ligh...)

  • Human gastric function, an experimental study of a man and his stomach by Stewart Wolf ... and Harold G. Wolff ... with a foreword by Walter B. Cannon ...

Membership

President Oklahoma City Symphony Society, 1956-1961. Member Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Foundation, since 1961. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (distinguished, trustee since 1992, Hofheimer prize for research 1952).

Member American Medical Association (county mental health 1960-1964), American Society Clinical Investigation, American Clinical and Climatological Association (president 1975-1976), Association American Physicians, American Psychosomatic Society (president 1961-1962), American Gastroenterological Association (research award 1943, president 1969-1970), American Heart Association (chairman committee professional education, committee international program, awards), Romanian Academy Med.Sci. (honorary), College Physicians Philadelphia, Collegium International Activitas Nervosae Superioris (Executive Committee since 1992, president 1994), Philosophical Society Texas, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa.

Connections

Married Virginia Danforth, August, 1942. Children: Stewart George III, Angeline Griffing, Thomas Danforth.