Sam Switzer

Sam Switzer (born 1931, died June 4, 1967, in the Bronx, N.Y.) was an American physician and medical researcher.

Education

Switzer graduated magna cum laude in 1952 from the City College of New York, where he won the Pell Medal as the top student in his class. He went to medical school at the New York University School of Medicine and graduated in 1956. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Switzer did a medical residency at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and in 1958 was appointed as a senior surgeon at the United States Public Health Service and Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, where he did population research on urinary tract infections, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

In 1960 he returned to the U.S., where he became an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an assistant attending physician at the adjacent Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, turning the focus of his research to lipid metabolism and mechanisms of liver disease. ^{[1] [2] [5] [6]}

He was also appointed as a career investigator at the New York City Health Research Council. ^{[1] [2]}

Publications

• Switzer, Sam (July 1, 1959). The clean-voided urine culture in surveying populations for urinary tract infection (Report) (in English and Japanese). Hiroshima, Japan: Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. pp. 1–12. OCLC   1019997563.
• Switzer, Sam (November 12, 1963). ABCC-JNIH Adult Health Study Hiroshima, 1958 to 1959. Hypertension and ischemic heart disease (Report) (in English and Japanese). Hiroshima, Japan: Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. pp. 1–28.
• Switzer, Sam (April 1960). "The clean-voided urine culture in surveying populations for urinary tract infection". Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine. 55: 557–563. PMID   13836147.
• Switzer, Sam (January 5, 1961). "Bacteriuria in a Healthy Population and Its Relation to Hypertension and Pyelonephritis" . The New England Journal of Medicine. 264 (1): 7–10. doi:10.1056/NEJM196101052640102. PMID   13774323 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
• Switzer, Sam (September 1963). "Hypertension and Ischemic Heart Disease in Hiroshima, Japan". Circulation. 28 (3): 368–380. doi:10.1161/01.cir.28.3.368. PMID   14059457 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
• Eder, H.A.; Roheim, P.S.; Switzer, S. (1964). "An Apoprotein of the Lipoproteins". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 77: 259–269. PMID   14275426.
• Roheim, P.S.; Switzer, S.; Girard, A.; Eder, H.A. (August 16, 1965). "The mechanism of inhibition of lipoprotein synthesis by orotic acid" . Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 20 (4): 416–421. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(65)90593-0. PMID   5861521 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
• Switzer, Sam; Eder, Howard A. (October 1965). "Transport of lysolecithin by albumin in human and rat plasma". Journal of Lipid Research. 6 (4): 506–511. doi: 10.1016/S0022-2275(20)39614-0 . PMID   5865378 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
• Roheim, P.S.; Switzer, S.; Girard, A.; Eder, H.A. (January 1966). "Alterations of lipoprotein metabolism in orotic acid-induced fatty liver". American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health. 15 (1, Pt 1): 21–26. PMID   5931986.
• Switzer, Sam (November 1967). "Plasma Lipoproteins in Liver Disease: I. Immunologically Distinct Low-Density Lipoproteins in Patients with Biliary Obstruction" (PDF). Journal of Clinical Investigation. 46 (11): 1855–1866. doi:10.1172/JCI105676. PMC   292936 . PMID   4168732 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
• Switzer, S. (November 1967). "Plasma lipoproteins in the differential diagnosis of liver disease". Gastroenterology. 53 (5). Williams & Wilkins: 790–793. doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(19)34164-2. PMID   6061365 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.

Death

Along with his 7-year-old daughter Mallory, Switzer died following injuries sustained in an automobile crash on a rainy night. He was survived by his wife Phyllis and his son Brian, who were both seriously injured in the accident. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. "Dr. Sam Switzer, 36, Taught Medicine at Einstein College". The New York Times . June 6, 1967. p. 47. ProQuest   117953353 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
2. "Crash Injuries Claim Life Of Dr. Switzer". The Reporter Dispatch. White Plains, N.Y. June 6, 1967. p. 14. Retrieved April 4, 2025– via newspapers.com.
3. Switzer, Sam (July 1, 1959). The clean-voided urine culture in surveying populations for urinary tract infection (Report) (in English and Japanese). Hiroshima, Japan: Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. pp. 1–12. OCLC   1019997563 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.
4. Switzer, Sam (November 12, 1963). ABCC-JNIH Adult Health Study Hiroshima, 1958 to 1959. Hypertension and ischemic heart disease (Report) (in English and Japanese). Hiroshima, Japan: Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. pp. 1–28. Retrieved April 4, 2025.
5. Eder, H.A.; Roheim, P.S.; Switzer, S. (1964). "An Apoprotein of the Lipoproteins". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 77: 259–269. PMID   14275426.
6. Switzer, S. (November 1967). "Plasma lipoproteins in the differential diagnosis of liver disease". Gastroenterology. 53 (5). Williams & Wilkins: 790–793. doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(19)34164-2. PMID   6061365 . Retrieved April 4, 2025.