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CURRICULUM VITAE OF DR. MrKEEN CATTELL Dr. McKeen Cattell, Professor Eneritus of Pharmacology, and formerly Head of the Department, Cornell University Medical College, New York, was born in Garrison, Nev York, on November 17, 1891. A graduate of Columbia University, Dr. Cattell previously attended Cambridge University and the University of Berlin; he holds additional degrees (A.M., Ph.D. and M.D.) from Harvard University. He was a teaching Fellow in Physiology at the Harvard Medical School, 1914-17; a teaching Fellov in Pharmacology there, 1920-24. He became an Instructor in Physiology at the Cornell University Medical College in 1924, becoming an Assistant Professor in 1927, and Associate Professor of Pharmacology in 1936. He has been Professor since 1943 and served as Head of the Department from 1936 to 1956. Dr. Catteil holds membership in the American Association for Advancement of Science, American Physiological Society, the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimeatal Therapeutics, of vhich be was President in 1951, and the American Chemical Society. Dr. Cattell is also a member of the Society of bcperimental Biology and Medicine, the Harvey Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Acadeuy of Sciences, and the British Physiological Society. He is an honorary member of the British Pharmacological Society, the International College of Surgeons, La Sociedad de Biologia de Bogota, Die Gesellschaft des Aerzte in Wein, Academia de Medicina de Medellin, the Sociedad de Farmacologia y Terapeutica of the Associacion Medica Argentina and the Japanese Pharmacological Society. He ti+as Chairman of the Section of Experimental Medicine ar.d Therapeutics of the American Medical Association in 1950. His public service also includes membership on a teaching mission to Austria in 1947, Colombia, S.A. in 1948 and Japan in 1950 under the auspices of Unitarian Serrice Committee and other agencies. In 1959 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. 121561 6=10e 6059 V • 1 ` \ S \ L \ 01095S1