Up for auction a RARE! "Adenosine in Blood Flow" Robert M. Berne Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1985.
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Robert
M. Berne (April 22, 1918 –
October 4, 2001) was a heart specialist and a medical educator whose textbooks were
used by generations of physicians Berne was recognized widely for his
seminal research contributions on the role of adenosine in
the blood flow to the heart. Berne was the Chair and the Founder of
cardiovascular research at the University of Virginia as
well as the Chair of Department of Physiology there, He was also President
of the American Physiological Society. Berne was a member of the National Academy of
Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berne was the Editor in Chief of Circulation
Research, a publication of the American Heart Association from 1970 to 1975. He
received the Gold Heart Award of the American Heart Association in
1985. He also received a special citation from the American Heart Association
in 1979. The National Academies Press called
Berne "an acclaimed authority in the field of cardiovascular
physiology". Berne was born in Yonkers, NY. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1939, and
from Harvard Medical School in
1943. In late 1944 he served in the US Army as a medical officer. At the end of the war he
took up a residency in Internal
Medicine at Mount Sinai with
the focus on cardiology. Berne joined the physiology faculty of Western Reserve University in
Cleveland in 1949, and remained in that position for 17 years. In 1966 he was
appointed Chair of the Physiology Department at the University of Virginia and
served in that capacity until 1988. He published more than 200 scientific
articles and three textbooks authored with Matthew N. Levy.