Rusk, Howard A., 1901-1989
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found: Jensen, J. Clinical nursing in medicine, 1941title page (with an appendix of diets prepared by Howard A. Rusk and collaborators)
found: Howard Rusk, in Chronoscope, 1953:title frame (Dr. Howard Rusk, Director of Rehabilitation at the New York University Bellevue Medical Center)
found: The New York Times, via WWW, November 14, 2013(November 5, 1989 edition; Dr. Howard A. Rusk, who became a pioneer in the rehabilitation of the physically disabled in the United States and many other countries after finding new ways to help badly wounded airmen in World War II, died of a stroke on November 4, 1989 at the Mary Manning Walsh Home in Manhattan; Howard Archibald Rusk was born April 9, 1901 in Brookfield, Mo.; he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1923 and an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's medical school in 1925, after only two years of study instead of the usual four; from 1926 to 1942, Dr. Rusk practiced as a specialist in internal medicine in St. Louis; he also became associate chief of staff at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis and joined the medical school faculty of Washington University in that city; after devising rehabilitation programs for the Army Air Force during the war, Dr. Rusk founded the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University; widely known simply as the Rusk Institute, it is now named the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabiitation Medicine; Dr. Rusk served as its director until 1978, when he became a distinguished university professor of New York University; he also served as president of the World Rehabilitation Fund from 1955, when he founded it, until 1982, when he was succeeded by his son Howard A. Rusk Jr.; Dr. Rusk also founded the world' first comprehensive medical-training program in rehabilitation: the Department of Rehabilitation at New York University' medical school; he headed the department from 1946 to 1980; in addition to his 1972 autobiography, A World to Care For; he wrote or co-authored 'New Hope for the Handicapped (1949), Living with a Disability (1953), and three works that appeared in 1958: Rehabilitation Medicine, Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation of the Cardiovascular Patient; from 1946-1969 he served as a contributing editor to The New York Times and published a weekly column on rehabilitation and other medical topics)
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