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Up for sale a RARE! "Adenosine in Blood Flow" Robert M. Berne Hand Signed Announcement Dated 1985.

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Robert

M. Berne (April 22, 1918 –

October 4, 2001) was a heart specialist and a medical educator whose textbooks were

used by generations of physicians Berne was recognized widely for his

seminal research contributions on the role of adenosine in

the blood flow to the heart. Berne was the Chair and the Founder of

cardiovascular research at the University of Virginia as

well as the Chair of Department of Physiology there, He was also President

of the American Physiological Society. Berne was a member of the National Academy of

Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and

the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Berne was the Editor in Chief of Circulation

Research, a publication of the American Heart Association from 1970 to 1975. He

received the Gold Heart Award of the American Heart Association in

1985. He also received a special citation from the American Heart Association

in 1979. The National Academies Press called

Berne "an acclaimed authority in the field of cardiovascular

physiology". Berne was born in Yonkers, NY. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1939, and

from Harvard Medical School in

1943. In late 1944 he served in the US Army as a medical officer. At the end of the war he

took up a residency in Internal

Medicine at Mount Sinai with

the focus on cardiology. Berne joined the physiology faculty of Western Reserve University in

Cleveland in 1949, and remained in that position for 17 years. In 1966 he was

appointed Chair of the Physiology Department at the University of Virginia and

served in that capacity until 1988. He published more than 200 scientific

articles and three textbooks authored with Matthew N. Levy.

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