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Ed Burchell (1872-1960), who was at the Rockefeller Institute, was brought to the Infirmary before World War I. 22 For the next 50 years, he was revered throughout America for his temporal bone dissections and histological preparations (Kara CB, Personal communication, 1980). Dr. Burchell was inducted as the first honorary member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1944. (Weymuller EA, Personal communication, 1980). There have been many other local, national, and international leaders in otolaryngology who have been members of the staff of the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. Time does not permit their listings and biographies. In 1960 the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary had 104,000 total clinic visits; 29,000 ear, nose, and throat clinical patients were treated, and 2450 ear, nose and throat surgical procedures were performed. Gordon Braislin was President of the Board of Trustees. Colonel Charles E. Martin was the administrator. The Surgeon Directors, Department of Otolaryngology, were Drs. J. Swift Hanley, Earl Limbach, Greydon Boyd, Ernest Weymuller, Ward Dennison, and Arthur Cracovaner. Attending surgeons were Drs. Daryl Voorhees, Francis Fodor, Paul Chodosh, and Felix DePenies, and listed as a resident at that time was Dr. Hector Giancarlo; all were destined to be Surgeon Directors, Otolaryngology, within that decade. The Research Department, cochaired by Dr. Godfrey Arnold, was very active and participated in many National Institutes of Health, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and Deafness Research foundation investigations, and in 1960 Dr. Arnold received the Harris P. Mosher Award for his triologic thesis, "Physiology and Pathology of the Cricothyroid Muscle." In 1961 Dr. Daryl Voorhees replaced Dr. Greydon Boyd, and in 1963 Dr. Felix DePenies replaced Dr. Ward Dennison as Surgeon Director. Clinical audiology was introduced at the Infirmary in 1945 to meet the needs of returning World War II veterans with service-connected hearing loss. This center developed into a sophisticated center for the evaluation of speech, hearing, and balance disorders. In 1961 the Department of Audiology's name was changed to the Hearing and Speech Department. The Director was Irwin Malles, Ph.D., who succeeded Mr. James A. DePew, Jr. The center is now the Hector Giancarlo Department of Communication Disorders. In 1961 Dr. Watson Crick made a model of DNA. In 1966 the Surgeon Directors, Otolaryngology, were Drs. Daryl Voorhees, Earl Limbach, Paul Chodosh, Felix DePenies, Ernest Weymuller, and Ricardo Bisi. Satisfactory completion of the otolaryngology residency required, among other things, a 1-year basic science course, completion of the home study course of the American Academy of Otolaryngology, and completion of an original basic clinical research project.
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