
	Where results make sense

Topic: Charles Drew

Related Topics

Blood transfusion

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

Urban legend

January 19

	Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
		Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is named in honor of the brilliant African-American physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation.
		Charles R. Drew was born June 3, 1904, in Washington, D.C. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts, where his athletic prowess in track and football earned him the Mossman trophy as the man who contributed the most to athletics for four years.
		Drew received his MD degree in 1933 and served his first appointment as a faculty instructor in pathology at Howard University, from 1935 to 1936.
	www.cdrewu.edu /_022/_html/about_us/charles_drew.htm (629 words)

	Charles R. Drew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drew was born in Washington, D.C. to Richy and Nora Drew, and was the oldest of five children.
		Charles R. Drew died at the age of 46 from injuries suffered in a car accident in North Carolina.
		Charles Drew was characterized by colleagues as "tireless," which was high praise for any doctor and reflects the standard training regimen of the profession: doctors were expected to live on less sleep than lesser mortals, for days, weeks, or years at a time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Drew (1650 words)

	Charles Drew
		Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C., the son of Richard and Nora Drew and eldest of five children.
		Charles was one of those rare individuals who seemed to excel at everything he did and on every level and would go on to become of pioneer in the field of medicine.
		Drew had discovered that by separating the plasma (the liquid part of blood) from the whole blood (in which the red blood cells exist) and then refrigerating them separately, they could be combined up to a week later for a blood transfusion.
	www.blackinventor.com /pages/charlesdrew.html (990 words)

	Inventor Charles Richard Drew Biography
		Drew was born in Washington, D.C. June 3, 1904 to Richard and Nora Drew, and was the oldest of five children.
		Charles Drew was named director of the Red Cross Blood Bank and assistant director of the National Research Council, in charge of blood collection for the United States Army and Navy.
		Drew was instrumental in developing blood plasma processing and transfusion therapy, and his work with the Red Cross blood program during World War II laid the foundation for modern day blood banking.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/drew.htm (2067 words)

	American Red Cross Museum - Dr. Charles Drew
		Drew had been a student and protégé' of Dr. John Scudder, an assistant professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University who was achieving national recognition for his research findings relating to body fluids.
		Charles Drew was born in Washington, D.C., June 3, 1904.
		Drew showed such promise in his work at Howard University that in 1938, at a time when war clouds were gathering over Europe, he was recommended for one of the Rockefeller fellowships at Columbia aimed at promoting advanced training in all fields of medicine.
	www.redcross.org /museum/history/charlesdrew.asp (1351 words)

	Charles Drew - MSN Encarta
		Drew showed that blood plasma lasts longer than whole blood and helped establish blood banks to serve the Allies in Europe during World War II (1939-1945).
		Born in Washington, D.C., Charles Richard Drew graduated from Amherst College in 1926 with a B.A. degree and from McGill University with M.D. and C.M. (master of surgery) degrees in 1933.
		In 1941 Drew became the first director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank, and thereafter he tried to make the public aware that blood banks do not need to be segregated by race.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560858/Drew_Charles_Richard.html (191 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Drew was born June 3, 1904, to Richard and Nora Drew, the oldest of five children.
		Drew and other American blood specialists were exploring ways to get life-saving blood plasma to the war front when Charles received an urgent request from his former teacher, Dr. John Beattie, who had returned to England.
		Drew because of his race, and that precious time was lost in taking him farther down the road to a fl hospital.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/men/cdrew.htm (677 words)

	Charles Drew Memorial Cultural House
		Drew was an outstanding surgeon who discovered the chemical method for perserving blood, and later became the director of the first American Blood Bank.
		This house has been named for Charles Drew not only in honor of his outstanding achievements but also as a testament to the continuous inspiration and example of achievements of fl people such as Charles Drew and to explore the cultures of Africa and the Diaspora at large.
		Drew House was founded as a space where members of the Amherst community can engage in intellectual debate, social activities, artistic expression, and all other endeavors which highlight the accomplishments of fls throughout the years and around the world.
	www.amherst.edu /~dos/reslife/themehouses/drew.html (189 words)

	Untitled Document
		Charles Drew was born in 1904 in Washington D.C.'s foggy bottom area.
		Drew was hospitalized for infected athletic spike injuries to his wrist and thigh.
		Charles Drew died in a automobile crash on April 1, 1950.
	www.sbas.net /cdrew.htm (799 words)

	Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Richard Drew, born in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 1904, was the eldest of five children.
		Charles was severely injured and was rushed to a nearby hospital in Burlington, North Carolina.
		Drew's injuries were just too massive-- "a broken neck and complete blockage of the blood flow back to the heart," says Dr. Ford, another doctor that was with Dr. Drew.
	www.shshistory.homestead.com /Drew.html (2385 words)

	Dr. Charles Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Drew was the medical researcher who discovered the way to store blood for long terms, making blood banks possible.
		Charles Richard Drew was born in 1904, in Washington D.C. He was an exceptional student who excelled in sports as well as academics.
		Dr. Drew's system worked well, but he resigned from his position as director of the Red Cross's Blood Bank in 1941 when the U.S. War Department sent out an order that the blood of Black donors and white donors should not be mixed.
	www.gibbsmagazine.com /Drew.htm (551 words)

	Charles Drew
		Charles Drew was a medical doctor and surgeon remembered as the inventor of the blood bank.
		Ironically, when Drew himself was critically injured in a car accident in 1950 he was refused admittance to the closest hospital because of his race.
		During his lifetime Charles Drew was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1944 for his work on blood plasma.
	www.nndb.com /people/391/000032295 (461 words)

	Doctor Charles Richard Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Richard Drew was born in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 1904 to Thomas and Nora Drew.
		Dr Drew's mother quit her job as a teacher after he was born to care for him and her other children.
		Charles Richard Drew was killed in an automobile accident after giving a speech at the Tuskegee Institute on April 1, 1950.
	multirace.org /firstday/stamp29.htm (449 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Drew was intrigued by blood preservation and after some preliminary work in Montreal, applied for positions in the United States but encountered the discrimination of his youth when many hospitals refused to hire him.
		Drew resigned in protest and returned to Howard University’s Freedman’s Hospital as chief surgeon and chief of staff.
		Drew’s life and remarkable work were cut short on April 1, 1950 at the age of 45, when he was killed in a car accident in North Carolina.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/02/10/13.asp (751 words)

	Charles Richard Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles went on to intern at the Royal Victoria Hospital and did his residency at Montreal General Hospital.
		Charles left Montreal and accepted a two-year Rockefeller fellowship in surgery at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and a General Education Board Fellow in Surgery at Columbia University.
		Upon his death on March 31, 1950 at age 45, Charles Drew wrote numerous articles on hematology for medical journals and was recognized internationally by scientists as one of the world's leading hematologists.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/drew.html (399 words)

	Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement at BSC : Bridgewater State College
		Drew resigned his position with the American Red Cross Blood Bank after the War Department sent out a directive stating that blood taken from white donors should not be mixed with that of Black donors.
		Drew, who was severely injured, was rushed to a nearby hospital in Burlington, North Carolina.
		Charles Drew did not make much money but he was a generous man. Dr.
	www.bridgew.edu /HOBA/Drew.cfm (551 words)

	No. 154: Charles Richard Drew
		harles Richard Drew was born in 1904 in a fl neighborhood in the so-called Foggy Bottom area of Washington, D.C. His intellectual and athletic abilities were soon evident.
		Drew was a campus hero, but he couldn't belong to most honor societies.
		Drew called a press conference to point out what every educated person knew -- that fl and white blood were quite indistinguishable.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi154.htm (490 words)

	Charles Drew Biography (Physician) — Infoplease.com
		Charles Drew is the father of the modern blood bank.
		Drew spent much of his later career teaching at Howard University in Washington, D.C.,; he also became chief of staff and medical director at nearby Freedman's Hospital.
		Charles Richard Drew - Charles Richard Drew physician Born: 1904 Birthplace: Washington, D.C. Born in Washington, D.C.,...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/charlesdrew.html (313 words)

	Charles Drew biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The man for whom Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is named, was a brilliant Black physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation.
		On April 1, 1950, Drew was motoring with three colleagues to the annual meeting of the John A. Andrews Clinical Association, Tuskegee, Alabama, when he was killed in a one car accident.
		Drew, who was severely injured, was rushed to nearby Alamance County General Hospital, in Burlington, North Carolina, where in the words of his widow, “everything was done in his fight for life” by the hospital’s medical staff.
	www.topblacks.com /education/charles-r-drew.htm (540 words)

	Dr. Charles Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. He was a great athlete in high school.
		In 1940 Dr. Drew became medical director of the plasma project in New York and in 1941 he was made director of the American Red Cross blood bank program in the United States.
		Drew and others protested and was he was forced to resign his position.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/bhm/drew.htm (239 words)

	Charles Drew
		Charles Drew was born in 1904 in Washington, DC.
		Charles Drew is not the name of a famous Olympic athlete.
		This is because Charles Drew was not only a star athlete; he was also an academic star.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_33_143.html (312 words)

	Charles Drew
		Charles R. Drew postgraduate school was founded in 1966 because of a lack of medical facilities in the area.
		Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is located in Los Angeles, California.
		Charles R. Drew Elementary School in Spring Dale Maryland, and the Dr.
	coestudents.valdosta.edu /irock110/drew.htm (259 words)

	Death/Charles Drew/drew bio
		Drew was an American physician of African descent who had played a key role in setting up the wartime blood bank in New York and in researching methods of storing blood plasma.
		Within months of Drew's death, a legend began to circulate -- first within the fl and health-care community -- that Drew bled to death because he was denied care at a white-only hospital in North Carolina.
		Love proceeds to define five myths that have arisen out of Drew's death: two main ones that were created by the fl community, two additional ones that were created as "backlash" myths by the American Red Cross, and a final one that attempts to answer the ARC myths.
	tafkac.org /death/charles.drew/drew_bio.html (421 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Charles R. Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Drew began to study the use of plasma as a substitute for whole blood.
		Drew graduated from Columbia University in 1940, with a Doctor of Science degree; he was the first African American to receive this degree.
		Drew continued teaching in Washington, D.C.; during the summer of 1949, as a consultant to the Surgeon General, he travelled with a team of four physicians, assessing hospital facilities throughout Occupied Europe.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/drew_c.htm (1752 words)

	Charles Drew: Profiles in Black History
		Charles Richard Drew was born in Washington DC on June 3, 1904 to Richard and Nora Drew.
		When America went to war in 1941, Drew was named as director of the blood bank for the National Research Council, collecting blood for the US army and navy, and setting the groundwork for the Red Cross collecting and banking procedures.
		The storage of blood in plasma form has saved untold lives since Drew brought the process forward in the thirties, and he created the model for blood and plasma storage that is used by the Red Cross even today.
	www.phillyburbs.com /BHM/drew.shtml (442 words)

	Legacy and Memory of Charles Drew Lives On
		June 3, 2004 marked the 100th anniversary of Dr. Drew’s birthday, and through the words of his students and family, a picture of a multifaceted person emerges, adding to the story of this man’s tremendous life and long-lasting legacy.
		Drew became a part of the history of blood banking in large part because of his outstanding research.
		Charlene Drew Jarvis carries on her father’s memory as an educator in Washington, D.C. “His work was not only in plasma, but he pulled all of the existing research together to create a sterile way to transpose plasma that was safe to use, not cloudy.
	www.redcross.org /article/0,1072,0_312_2825,00.html (892 words)

	Dr. Charles Richard Drew
		CHARLES R. The man for whom Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, and our SNMA-MAPS chapter, is named, was a brilliant Black physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation.
		He further stated that "the blood of an individual human being may differ by blood groupings, but there is absolutely no scientific basis to indicate any difference in human blood from race to race." He returned to Howard University to teach surgery at it's medical school.
		At his untimely death, Charles Drew left behind a devoted wife, Lenore, four children, and a legacy of inspirational, unstinting dedication to service for all people.
	www.albany.edu /~cdsc/drewbio.HTM (672 words)

	Values Project - Science : CHARLES DREW WORKSHEET
		In this development, Charles Drew was a major pioneer.
		Charles Richard Drew (1904 - 1950) was an American, one of five children born and brought up in Washington.
		Drew was a fl American and his family home was in a fl ghetto.
	www.becal.net /toolkit/smrtvalues/science/charles_drew_worksheet.htm (1232 words)

	Charles Drew Health Professions Society
		Drew was educated at Amherst College (graduated 1926), McGill University, Montreal (1933), and Columbia University (1940).
		While earning his doctorate at Columbia in the late 1930s, he conducted research into the properties and preservation of blood plasma.
		Drew resigned his official posts in 1942 after the armed forces ruled that the blood of fls would be accepted but would have to be stored separately from that of whites.
	www.amherst.edu /~drewhealth/cdrew.html (119 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)