Name E. Peirce Role Physician | Died August 8, 2003 | |
Education Harvard University, Harvard Medical School | ||
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 Manhattan, New York City from 1966 to 1991. 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.
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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 and Company research laboratories in Jersey City, New Jersey when Converse was 16 months old. His mother, Dr. Ethel Mathews Girdwood Peirce, raised Converse Peirce and three brothers while pursuing a career as a rheumatologist in Philadelphia.
He graduated from the Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1936. He 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, Maryland, 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, Tennessee, where he rose to Chief of Surgery, in the Acuff Clinic, and Associate Professor of Physiology and Surgery, Emory University in 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 on August 8, 2003 at his home in Hancock, Maine.
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He was a member of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association [1]. the Society of Thoracic Surgeons [2], and a distinguished Fellow of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Distinguished Fellow Archived June 14, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.