Berry Announces Changes in Med School Personnel

Dean George P. Berry announced today the promotion of four members of the Faculty of Medicine and changes of title for two others.

Those promoted are: Dr. Roy O. Greep, associate professor of Dental Science, to professor of Dental Science; Dr. Fritz A. Lipmann, associate in Biological Chemistry, to professor of Biological Chemistry at the Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Louis K. Diamond '23, assistant professor of Pediatrics, to associate professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital, and Clement A. Smith, assistant professor of Pediatrics, to associate professor of Pediatrics at the Boston Lying-in Hospital.

Changes

Those receiving a change in title are: Dr. Edwin B. Dunphy, Henry W. Williams Professor of Opthalmology, who becomes Henry W. Williams Professor of Opthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Dr. Merrill C. Sosman, clinical professor of Radiology, who becomes professor of Radiology at the Peter Bent Brgham Hospital.

Professor Greep, who was born October 8, 1905 in Longford, Kansas, received the B.S. degree from the University of Kansas (1930), the M.S. (1932) and Ph. D. (1934) from the University of Wisconsin. He did research in the Biology Department at Harvard University from 1935 until 1937 when he became associated with the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. He was with Squibb until 1944 when he was named an assistant professor of Dental Science at Harvard University. He became an associate professor in 1946. His special field is the endocrine system and its relation to dental problems.

Dr. Idpmann, who was born in Germany in 1899, received the M.D. (1922) and Ph.D. (1927) from the University of Berlin. After several years of research work with the Carlsberg Foundation in Denmark, and a year as a Rockefeller Fellow (1931-32), he continued his research at Cornell and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He became an associate at the Harvard Medical School in 1949.

Blood Export

Dr. Diamond, National Medical Director of the American Red Cross Blood Program, is an authority on blood groups, the physiology of the new born and hematology in infants. He is also Chief of the Hematology Division of the Children's Hospital and Visiting Physician of the Infant's Hospital.

A native of the New York City, Dr. Diamond received the A.B. (1923) and M.D. (1927) from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Smith, who was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1901, received the A.B. (1923), A.M. (1925) and M.D. (1928) from the University of Michigan. He has held teaching positions at the University of Michigan and Wayne University and is now Director of Research on the New Bern at the Boston Lying-In Hospital and Chief of The Infants' Hospital.