Dr. Carleton B. Chapman Appointed Dean of Dartmouth Medical School

DR. CARLETON B. CHAPMAN, currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, has been appointed Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School. The appointment, announced May 17 by President Dickey, will take effect in the late fall.

Dr. Chapman, in addition to his professorship in Dallas, is Director of the Pauline and Adolph Weinberger Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of its Cardiovascular Subspecialty Board. He is also a Fellow of of the American College of Physicians and is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Physiological Society, and other professional groups.

A native of Talladega, Ala., Dr. Chapman was educated at Davidson College and was a Rhodes Scholar at St. Johns College, Oxford. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1941 and a Master's degree in public health in 1944, both from Harvard. During the war Dr. Chapman served as a commissioned officer in the United States Public Health Service in the Middle and Far East. In 1947 he took up a teaching and research appointment at the University of Minnesota Medical School and accepted the Dallas appointment in 1953. He was awarded a Career Professorship by the National Institutes of Health in 1963.

Dr. Chapman's research and clinical interests have been largely in the fields of the heart and circulation, with a special emphasis on human exercise. He has also evidenced continuing concern over problems of medical education and research, and served as president of the American Heart Association in 1964-65. He has published many articles and monographs on heart disease, physiology, various aspects of medical education, and in the field of the history of medicine and science.

Dr. Chapman is married to the former Ruth Horine. They have three children, Nancy C. (Mrs. Jack A. Collins), John G., and Mary A., and one grandchild.

Until Dr. Chapman's arrival in the late fall, Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44 will continue as Acting Dean of the Medical School. Dr. Tenney, who was Director of Medical Sciences and Dean from 1957 to 1962, will return to his duties as Chairman and Professor of Physiology on Dr. Chapman's arrival.

The new Dean, prior to taking office, will participate in the studies authorized by the Trustees in connection with a proposed enlargement of the student body, facilities, and program of the Medical School.

Dr. Carleton B. Chapman