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CiktRICULLM VITAE 0F DR. JULIUS H. COMROE JR. Dr. Julius Hiram Comx,e Jr., Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, vas born in York, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1911. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Comroe formerly vas Chairman of the Depdrtment and Professor of Physiology and Phar- macology at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl- vania, until 1957. He vas also a Clinical Physiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Comroe received his M.D. there in 1934 and was a Commonvealth F'und Fellow at the National Institute of Medical Research in London in 1939. A promi- nent educator, he has been Associate Editor of the American JournaLl of Physiology since 1948 (Consulting Editor since 195 , and Associate Editor of Pharmacologic Reviews (1949-50)• His career includes service as Chairman, in 1953, of the First Teaching Institute of the Associated American Medical Colleges. Since 1953 he has been a member of the United States Public Health Service Pharmacology Study Section, a Consultant at the Naval Avia- tion Medical Acceleration Laborator;, Consultant in Pulmonary Phys:- ology to Veterans' Administration, a member of the Co®ittee (1953-58) on Research of the American Medical Association Council on Pharmacy, and a Fellov of the American College of Physicians and of the Ame:-:- can Association for Advancement of Science. Dr. Comroe holds member- ship in the Ame^ ca.n Physiological Society, the American Society fcr Pharmacology and FScperimental Therapeutics (Council 1953-56), the Philadelphia Physiclo3ical Society (President 19k8-49), the American Society of Clinical Investigat'_on and Harvey Society (honorary meaber;. The author of Ph iolo ca1 Basis for 02 Therap (1950) and Methods in Medical Research, Vol. 2 (1950), Dr. Counroe vas Editor in 1952 of Advances in Medic:ne and Surge:y. 5'-5e 65_0C 606C Cl R t N 0109GO