Milford chronicle., 1959-05-08
DR.. |. H. Page
Will Be First Heart
Association Lecturer

The Delaware Heart Association
announced that DIR. Irvine H. Page,
formerly president of the Americ-
an Heart Association and Director
of Research at the Cleveland Clin
ic, has been selected as the first
Annual David FIett dupont Memoir
j ial Lecturer.
This announcement was made by
DR.. Robert L. Devices, chairman of
the committee appointed by the
Delaware Heart Association to
select the country's most outstand-
ing scientist in the cardiovascular
field to present a lecture to the
members of the medical profession
in Delaware in honor of the late
David FlettduPOnt, whose thought
fulness has benefited the Heart
Association. Prior to his tragic
death in 1855, Mr.. DUPONT left a
major portion of his estate to the
benefit of several charities under
a trust agreement.
The committee in addition to
DIR. Devices consists of: DR.. Char
les Levy, Mrs. e. H. Worth, Jr..
DIR. o. ]. Pollak, DR.. Arthur P. Tor
met, and Mrs. Lammont DUPONT.
The lecture will be presented
May 10, under the auspices of the
New Castle County Medical Society
to the physicians and chemists of
Delaware.
DIR. Irvine H. Page is Director of
Research at the Cleveland Clinic,
and was named winner of 1855
Albert Lasker Award of the Amer
| ican Heart Association "for dis
tinguished achievement in the field
of cardiovasular research"
DR.. Page was hailed especially
for three research contributions
of far-reaching significance" In
1899, according to his citation, DR.
Page participated in the discovery
of the powerful pressure-increas-
ing substance angiotensin. In 1857
after eighteen years of painstaking
research, he and his colleagues
achieved the synthesis of this sub
stance, opening the way to the diff
ferential diagnosis of renal hyper
tension and to treatment directed
against it's underlying mechanism
The third fundamental accomp-
lishment cited by the Awards Co
mmittee is the isolation in 1948 by
DR.. Page and his colleagues of SER
otonin, key blood compound. The
separation of serotonin, the A
wards Committee said, "has had
profound effects upon research
into the chemistry and function
ing of the nervous system, helping
to unlock the secrets of mental
disorders and pointing the way to
possible cures"
DR.. Page was cited additionally
"for scientific leadership that has
| left its mark on many other areas
of cardiovascular research" A past
president of the American Heart
Association, and of the Cleveland
Area Heart Society, he is the au-
thor of over 300 articles on heart
and circulatory diseases.
DR.. Page was born in Indian
| apolis. He completed his under
graduate work at Cornell Univer-
sity in 1921 and received his M. D.
there in 1926. He served an intern
ship at Bellvue and Presbyterian
Hospitals in New York.
DIR. Page was a director of chem
ical research at the Kaiser Will
helm Institute in Munich, Germany,
from 1928 to 1881, when he became
associate member of the Rockefel-
ler Institute for Medical Research
in New York City In 1889, he was
named director of the Lilly Labor
atory for Clinical Research at the
Indianapolis City Hospital, where
he remained until 1945, when he
was appointed director of research
at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation
the noSition he presently holds.