E. Converse Peirce 2nd

Edmund Converse Peirce 2nd (October 9, 1917 – August 8, 2003) was an American physician who was Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, from 1966 to 1991 when he retired. During his career, Peirce published over 150 research articles and is notable for his well-regarded contributions to the refinement of artificial circulatory technologies including the membrane oxygenator.


Early life

Born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Converse grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in the Quaker tradition. His father, Dr. George Peirce was a physician and chemist who was killed in a fire in the Colgate research laboratories in New Jersey when Converse was 16 months old. His mother, Dr. Ethel Mathews Girdwood Peirce, raised Converse Pierce and three brothers while pursuing a career as a rheumatologist in Philadelphia.

Education and career

He graduated from Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia in 1936, received an undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1940 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1943. After service in the US Army Medical Corps, from 1946-48 he was at the Children's Hospital in Boston, as Graduate Assistant in Pathology and then as Fellow, Surgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He then went to Baltimore, where from 1948 to 1954 he was successively Assistant Professor, Anatomy, Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Surgical Fellow and Surgeon at the USPHS Hospital there. He then moved to Knoxville, where he rose to Chief of Surgery, in the Acuff Clinic, and Associate Professor of Physiology and Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. From 1966 to his retirement in 1991, he was Professor of Surgery and Director, Hyperbaric medicine, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. He died at Hancock Point, Maine.

Awards

He was a member of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association . the Society of Thoracic Surgeons , and a distinguished Fellow of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Distinguished Fellow Archived June 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.

Publications

Peirce published a total of 150 formal peer-reviewed scientific papers. In addition to continuing clinical and experimental studies on arterial catheterization, and papers on various clinical and experimental problems of cardiac physiology, the series of papers reporting the artificial organ work is:

References

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