Heads Irvington House

Dr. Gene H. Stollerman '41, who recently gave his first report as medical director of Irvington House, Irvingtonon-Hudson, N. Y„ expressed new hope for the treatment of childhood heart disease, most often caused by rheumatic fever, with the increased use of antibiotics. In his statement before the directors, he said, "Not only can recurrences of rheumatic fever be prevented, but even the frequency of the initial attack may be greatly reduced by prompt treatment of streptococcal infection with anti-biotics."

Irvington House, which Dr. Stollerman has headed since last July, was founded 30 years ago to provide children suffering from heart disease with a favorable environment. Today it correlates preventive techniques, research, and education, with treatment. Irvington House is affiliated with New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, where Dr. Stollerman is Instructor in Medicine. During the past years the recurrence rate at Irvington House has dropped to less than 1%, and inroads into the personalities of cardiac child have been greatly lessened.

Before becoming medical director, Dr. Stollerman was a member of the Department of Microbiology in N. Y. U. Medical School, and later research associate and assistant attending physician at Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn. He received his medical degree at Columbia in 1944, and served three and a half years with the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the war.

DR. GENE H. STOLLERMAN '41