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Center for a Healthy Maryland Reception
to Honor the Pioneers of Maryland Medicine
Who Developed CPR
November 11, 2010
Center for a Healthy Maryland Exhibit
The Beat Goes On:
50 Years of CPR
Dr. C. Park, Captain Martin McMahon
and Dr. Peter Safar
Early CPR Resuscitation Study
at Baltimore City Hospital
Dr. Peter Safar
1924-2003
Dr. William B. Kouwenhoven
1886-1975
James Jude, M.D.
Collaborated with Drs. William Kouwenhoven and
Guy Knickerbocker at Johns Hopkins Hospital during the 1950s
in the groundbreaking research on external cardiac massage
Doctors views exhibit of items from the archives of
Dr. Leonard Scherlis
Dr. James Jude and Dr. Allan Jensen
Dr. Dembo with Mrs. Sallye Jude
and Mrs. Barbara Scherlis
Mrs. Sallye Jude greets Mrs. Barbara Scherlis
Dr. James Jude with
John Scherlis, son of Dr. Leonard Scherlis
David Hexter, M.D.
MedChi President
Dr. Myron Weisfeldt and
Dr. Thomas Hunt
Dr. Serindar Kumar
Thomas Allen, M.D., Chair of the Board of
Trustees, Center for a Healthy Maryland
Dr. Allen delivers opening remarks and introductions
Allan Jensen, M.D., Chair of History of Maryland Medicine Committee and Thomas Allen, M.D., Chair of the Board of Trustees, Center for a Health Maryland
Sandi Rowland, Executive Director of the
Center for a Healthy Maryland,
welcomes guests
Donald Dembo, M.D.
Reminiscing about the development and
dissemination of CPR
Roberta Herbst,
Program Manager of
the Center for a
Healthy Maryland
Reading Governor’s
Proclamation declaring
November 11, 2010 as a
celebration of the 50th
anniversary of CPR and
congratulating the pioneers
of Maryland medicine who
developed the technique of
cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
Dr. Donald Dembo
with
Governor’s
Citation
Dr. Dembo, Chair of the
Center for a Healthy
Maryland’s CPR
Committee, is Assistant
Professor of Medicine,
Johns Hopkins Medicine
and Director of Advanced
Life Support at Sinai
Hospital. He was a pioneer
in the original training and
dissemination of CPR.
Dr. James Jude
with
Governor’s
Citation
Dr. Jude is currently Clinical
Professor of Surgery,
University of Miami School
of Medicine.
Dr. Jude was a resident in
cardiothoracic surgery at
Johns Hopkins Hospital
when he collaborated with
Dr. William Kouwenhoven
and Dr. G. Guy
Knickerbocker in the
groundbreaking research
on external cardiac
massage.
Mrs. Jean Kouwenhoven and Nick Kouwenhoven,
daughter-in-law and grandson of Dr. William B.
Kouwenhoven accept Governor’s Citation
Mrs. Barbara Scherlis accepts Governor’s Citation
on behalf of her husband, Dr. Leonard Scherlis, a
pioneer in the early dissemination of CPR and Chair
of the American Heart Association’s first CPR
Committee
Mrs. Barbara Scherlis and son, John
Scherlis with Roberta Herbst, of the
Center for a Healthy Maryland
Assistant Fire Chief, Donald Heinbuch
accepts Governor’s Citation on behalf of
Captain Martin McMahon
Sally and Paul Nachlas
with
Governor’s Citation
Paul Nachlas is the son of Dr.
Marvin Nachlas, who, with
Melvin Seidband, developed
the Iron Heart, a portable heart
compression device which was
installed in all ambulances in
Baltimore City in 1962. Later
Nachlas and Seidband
collaborated with Dr. William
Kouwenhoven, inventor of the
first defibrillator.
Dr. Jude, Dr. Dembo and representatives of Drs.
Scherlis, Kouwenhoven, Nachlas, and Captain
McMahon pose after receiving Governor’s Citations
Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, William Osler Professor of Medicine, Director
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dr. Weisfeldt presents the
Thomas E. Hunt Lectureship:
Horizons in CPR and CPR Research
“He placed his lips to hers, and filled
her breast from his own panting chest.
Again and again he renewed his
efforts ...she was born again into this
mortal life.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
“The Guardian Angel” 1867
“Hearts too good to die.”
Claude S. Beck, 1955
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