Harry Bisel

Harry F. Bisel ( born June 17, 1918 in Manor, Pennsylvania, † 1994) was an American physician and pioneer in the field of clinical oncology.

Life

Bisel attended after graduating from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, the University of Pittsburgh. There he graduated MD 1942. During the same year he joined the Reserve of the United States Navy, serving from 1943 until 1947. During World War II he served as a flight surgeon in the Pacific War in action and received for his services three Service Stars. Bisel remained until 1978 officially a member of the reserve. He has appeared in 1947 as a founding member of the American Association for Cancer Education in appearance and has studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School. In addition Bisel was one of the first students who went through the special education program in terms of tumor diseases of the Memorial Sloan -Kettering Cancer Center.

In 1963 Bisel was the first formally trained oncologist a job at the Mayo Clinic, where he worked until his retirement in 1983. In the first year, he called the department of medical oncology to life and stood in front of this until 1972. In 1964, together with Fred Bisel Ansfield, Herman Freckman, Arnoldus Goudsmit, Robert Talley, William Wilson and Jane C. Wright, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO ), the crucial promoted the modern development of medical oncology and drove forward and the first president he was appointed. As an active member, he was also with the American Cancer Society and worked as a consultant for the National Cancer Institute. It also maintained as a lecturer lectures at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the Mayo Medical School and one of the founders of the American Society of Preventive Oncology.

For his many contributions to the field of clinical oncology the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine him the prestigious Hench Award conferred in 1971. Bisel was married from 1963 with the archaeologist and anthropologist Sara C. Bisel and lived with her ​​and their children Jane, Clark and Harold in Rochester, Minnesota, home of the Mayo Clinic.