Carol Remmer Angle

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Carol Remmer Angle
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Carol Remmer Angle, 2012.
Born (1927-12-20) December 20, 1927 (age 97)
Education Wellesley College Cornell Medical School
Alma mater Wellesley College
Occupation(s)Pediatrician, Nephrologist, Toxicologist
SpouseDr. William Angle (deceased 1993)
ChildrenDr. Marcia Angle
Dr. John F. Angle
Monica Angle

Carol Remmer Angle is an American pediatrician, nephrologist, and toxicologist. Angle is known as one of the nation's leading researchers on lead poisoning. [1] She is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska. Angle joined UNMC in 1954 and was one of the first women to serve as chair of an academic medical department (pediatrics). [2] She also served as chief of pediatric nephrology, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical toxicology. In 1957, Angle along with Dr. Matilda McIntire, founded one of the country's first poison control centers. [3] Angle is a founding member and a prior president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. [4] For forty years, Angle served as an expert for NIEHS, National Institutes of Health [5] and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.

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Education and training

Angle studied English literature at Wellesley College and graduated in 1948; she later attended Cornell Medical School, and took a residency at New York Hospital Pediatric. Afterward, she began working at the University of Nebraska Hospital. [6]

Offices held and honors

Selected works

References

  1. Buttry, Stephen (January 15, 2002). "Authority on lead poisoning now focuses on her garden". Omaha World-Herald. News. p. 2B. In more than 40 years at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Angle became one of the nation's leading researchers of lead poisoning, tying elevated blood levels of lead to various environmental causes.
  2. "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. March 1, 1981. p. 10–B. For the first time in its 100-year history, the University of Nebraska College of Medicine has a woman heading one of its departments. Angle who has been on the N.U. faculty since 1954, has been named chairman of the department of pediatrics.
  3. Bradley, Qianna (April 4, 2007). "Center's 50 years of saving lives Poison facts". Omaha World-Herald. The center was begun in 1957 under the leadership of Drs. Matilda McIntire and Carol Angle
  4. 1 2 "Omahan Heads Poison Agency". Omaha World-Herald. January 10, 1975. p. 4. Dr. Carol Angle, pediatrics professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has assumed the presidency of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
  5. "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. March 1, 1981. p. 10–B. Dr. Angle, whose research focuses on environmental health related to children, is a member of a research review section for the National Institutes of Health.
  6. "none". Omaha World-Herald. July 10, 1954. Dr. Angle, who comes from Oakdale, Long Island, originally is a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell Medical School. She took two years of pediatric training at New York Hospital of Cornell Medical Center and a third year at Childrens Hospital.
  7. 1 2 Ware, Doris Ann (January 18, 1970). "Pediatrics and Poison Her Specialties". Omaha World-Herald. p. 7–E. She was director of medical education at Children's Memorial Hospital from 1954 until 1967, and director of the Nebraska Master Poison Control Center from 1957 until 1966.
  8. "Sedative-Poisoned Children Will Participate n Study". Omaha World-Herald. March 25, 1966. p. 8. Dr. Carol R. Angle, director of the Poison Control Center at the hospital, will head the project.
  9. 1 2 "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. March 1, 1981. p. 10–B. She is clinical director of the N.U. Medical Center's pediatric renal clinic and the Nebraska Birth Defects Clinic.
  10. Ware, Doris Ann (January 18, 1970). "Pediatrics and Poison Her Specialties". Omaha World-Herald. p. 7–E. Dr. Angle is director of the pediatric intensive care unit and the pediatric renal clinic at the university, and is associate editor of the national journal, Clinical Toxicology.
  11. "Two Leaving N.U. Medical Posts". Omaha World-Herald. March 27, 1980. p. 39. Dr. Carol Angle, professor of pediatrics, will serve as acting chairman of the pediatrics department, starting April 1.
  12. "Adviser Named". Sunday World-Herald. June 17, 1979. p. 14–B. Dr. Carol Angle, a pediatrics professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's toxicology advisory board.
  13. "Dr. Angle Selected". Omaha World-Herald. March 18, 1982. p. 4. Dr. Carol Angle, chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been selected as president-elect of the metals specialty section of the Society of Toxicology.
  14. Setton, Dolly (October 12, 1998). "The Berkshire Bunch". Forbes.com. Retrieved December 11, 2012. Dr. Angle still practices medicine, as director of clinical toxicology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
  15. McMaster, Andrea (November 21, 2008). "2008 Legends Honored". UNMC News: University of Nebraska Medical Center. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2012. Through much of her career, she has been active in the National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center and she also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Toxicology -- Clinical Toxicology and the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
  16. Buttry, Stephen (January 15, 2002). "From cannonballs to gasoline, lead's history is long About this story". Omaha World-Herald. News. p. 1B. Angle, who still edits the Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, and her colleagues began studying the health effects of emissions from Omaha's industries, which also included an Asarco refinery that eventually closed in 1997.
  17. "ACMT Awards". Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award: Past Recipients: American College of Medical Toxicology. Retrieved December 4, 2012. A professor emeritus for the UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Angle joined the UNMC medical staff in 1971 and served in a number of roles including chairman of the department of pediatrics.
  18. "ACMT Awards". Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award: Past Recipients: American College of Medical Toxicology. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
  19. McMaster, Andrea (November 21, 2008). "2008 Legends Honored". University of Nebraska Medical Center. pp. UNMC News. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 4, 2012.