The Center for the History of Medicine

Polio Exhibit

Opening pages of EVALUATION OF 1954 FIELD TRIAL OF POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE: SUMMARY REPORT

Organization of the Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center

Thomas Francis, Jr., Director
Robert F. Korns, Deputy Director
Robert B. Voight, Chief of Statistical Operations
Fay M. Hemphill, Statistician, Technical Advisor
Morton Boisen, Asst. Chief of Statistical Operations
Eva Tolchinsky, Tabulations Assistant
John A. Napier, Supervisor, Statistical Procedures
Margaret M. Tohnson, Administrative Secretary
Herbert A. Wenner, Laboratory Liaison

Technical Assistants on loan from the Communicable Disease Center

Richard H. Seibert
Earl L. Diamond
James J. Tumbusch

Lithoprinted in U.S.A.
EDWARDS BROTHERS, INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center
Advisory Committee

Robert L. Bennett, M.D.
Medical Director
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Warm Springs, Georgia

David Bodian, M.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Poliomyelitis Laboratory
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Angus Campbell, Ph.D.
Director, Survey Research Center
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

William G. Cochran
Professor of Biostatistics
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

William T. Green, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief
The Children's Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Horace Hodes, M.D.
Director, Department of Pediatrics
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Howard A. Howe, M.D.
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
Poliomyelitis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Alexander D. Langmuir, M.D.
Chief, Epidemiology Branch
Communicable Disease Center
U.S. Public Health Service
Atlanta, Georgia

Edwin H. Lennette, M.D.
Chief, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory
California Department of Public Health
Berkeley, California

Rensis Likert, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Colin MacLeod, M.D.
Professor of Microbiology
New York University Medical School
New York, New York

Hugo Muench, M.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts

John D. Porterfield, M.D.
Director
State Department of Mental Hygiene and Correction
Columbus, Ohio

Leonard M. Schuman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Franklin H. Top, M.D.
Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine
College of Medicine
State University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Jessie Wright, M.D.
Medical Director
D. T. Watson School
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Herbert A. Wenner, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City 3, Kansas