Center for a Healthy Maryland Reception

to Honor the Pioneers of Maryland Medicine

Who Developed CPR

November 11, 2010

Center for a Healthy Maryland Exhibit

The Beat Goes On:

50 Years of CPR

Dr. C. Park, Captain Martin McMahon

and Dr. Peter Safar

Early CPR Resuscitation Study

at Baltimore City Hospital

Dr. Peter Safar

1924-2003

Dr. William B. Kouwenhoven

1886-1975

James Jude, M.D.

Collaborated with Drs. William Kouwenhoven and

Guy Knickerbocker at Johns Hopkins Hospital during the 1950s

in the groundbreaking research on external cardiac massage

Doctors views exhibit of items from the archives of

Dr. Leonard Scherlis

Dr. James Jude and Dr. Allan Jensen

Dr. Dembo with Mrs. Sallye Jude

and Mrs. Barbara Scherlis

Mrs. Sallye Jude greets Mrs. Barbara Scherlis

Dr. James Jude with

John Scherlis, son of Dr. Leonard Scherlis

David Hexter, M.D.

MedChi President

Dr. Myron Weisfeldt and

Dr. Thomas Hunt

Dr. Serindar Kumar

Thomas Allen, M.D., Chair of the Board of

Trustees, Center for a Healthy Maryland

Dr. Allen delivers opening remarks and introductions

Allan Jensen, M.D., Chair of History of Maryland Medicine Committee and Thomas Allen, M.D., Chair of the Board of Trustees, Center for a Health Maryland

Sandi Rowland, Executive Director of the

Center for a Healthy Maryland,

welcomes guests

Donald Dembo, M.D.

Reminiscing about the development and

dissemination of CPR

Roberta Herbst,

Program Manager of

the Center for a

Healthy Maryland

Reading Governor’s

Proclamation declaring

November 11, 2010 as a

celebration of the 50th

anniversary of CPR and

congratulating the pioneers

of Maryland medicine who

developed the technique of

cardiopulmonary

resuscitation.

Dr. Donald Dembo

with

Governor’s

Citation

Dr. Dembo, Chair of the

Center for a Healthy

Maryland’s CPR

Committee, is Assistant

Professor of Medicine,

Johns Hopkins Medicine

and Director of Advanced

Life Support at Sinai

Hospital. He was a pioneer

in the original training and

dissemination of CPR.

Dr. James Jude

with

Governor’s

Citation

Dr. Jude is currently Clinical

Professor of Surgery,

University of Miami School

of Medicine.

Dr. Jude was a resident in

cardiothoracic surgery at

Johns Hopkins Hospital

when he collaborated with

Dr. William Kouwenhoven

and Dr. G. Guy

Knickerbocker in the

groundbreaking research

on external cardiac

massage.

Mrs. Jean Kouwenhoven and Nick Kouwenhoven,

daughter-in-law and grandson of Dr. William B.

Kouwenhoven accept Governor’s Citation

Mrs. Barbara Scherlis accepts Governor’s Citation

on behalf of her husband, Dr. Leonard Scherlis, a

pioneer in the early dissemination of CPR and Chair

of the American Heart Association’s first CPR

Committee

Mrs. Barbara Scherlis and son, John

Scherlis with Roberta Herbst, of the

Center for a Healthy Maryland

Assistant Fire Chief, Donald Heinbuch

accepts Governor’s Citation on behalf of

Captain Martin McMahon

Sally and Paul Nachlas

with

Governor’s Citation

Paul Nachlas is the son of Dr.

Marvin Nachlas, who, with

Melvin Seidband, developed

the Iron Heart, a portable heart

compression device which was

installed in all ambulances in

Baltimore City in 1962. Later

Nachlas and Seidband

collaborated with Dr. William

Kouwenhoven, inventor of the

first defibrillator.

Dr. Jude, Dr. Dembo and representatives of Drs.

Scherlis, Kouwenhoven, Nachlas, and Captain

McMahon pose after receiving Governor’s Citations

Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, William Osler Professor of Medicine, Director

Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Dr. Weisfeldt presents the

Thomas E. Hunt Lectureship:

Horizons in CPR and CPR Research

“He placed his lips to hers, and filled

her breast from his own panting chest.

Again and again he renewed his

efforts ...she was born again into this

mortal life.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes:

“The Guardian Angel” 1867

“Hearts too good to die.”

Claude S. Beck, 1955