Harry Lipscomb
(Deceased May 14, 2010)
Harry Lipscomb, scientific advisor at PetroMass, received his M.D. degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. In his training he has held internship, residency, and fellowships at McGill University (Montreal General Hospital), at Harvard Medical School (Peter Bent Brigham Hospital), and in the Department of Experimental Medicine at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Dr. Lipscomb has served as chairman and director of the Department of Biochemistry at Baylor College of Medicine, where he coordinated faculty activities with those of researchers in the Institute of Lipid Chemistry, an organization recognized for its developments in the field of biomedical mass spectrometry.
With the support of the Xerox Corporation, Dr. Lipscomb created the Xerox Center for Health Care Research at the Baylor College of Medicine, resulting in the implementation of mobile health care units that were successfully field-tested in the Caribbean for Jamaica Blue Cross, in U.S. Veteran’s Hospitals, and in the prison system of North Carolina.
Dr. Lipscomb taught for twenty years at Baylor College of Medicine before joining the faculty of the newly-created College of Medicine at Texas A&M University, College Station. Currently he holds the position of Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University.
During an active career in teaching, research, and the practice of medicine, Dr. Lipscomb has published widely in the medical literature in the areas of endocrine physiology and biochemistry, the metabolic costs of manned space flight, biomedical engineering, medical ethics, and geriatric medicine. He has served as editor of The Journal of Biomedical Engineering, and he has continued to follow developments in the physical sciences applicable to medicine.
Dr. Lipscomb has been instrumental in the creation of specialized centers for the care of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias. His interest in health care delivery has taken him into the coal mines of West Virginia to study the effects of black lung disease on miners and into the fields of migrant farm laborers to report on the burdens of their illnesses. As a result of these investigations, Dr. Lipscomb has presented his findings in testimony before U.S. Senate subcommittees on health and public welfare.
Dr. Lipscomb has served on the Texas Medical Foundation’s Peer Review Organization, the Association of Directors of Academic Geriatric Medical Programs, and he is a past member of the executive advisory committee of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, The Endocrine Society, The American Society of Internal Medicine, and The Cosmos Club of Washington. In addition Dr. Lipscomb is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and an Awardee of the New York Academy of Sciences Southwest Science Forum.
Himself a heart-transplant recipient, Dr. Lipscomb has traveled and lectured widely on certain aspects of cardiac transplantation, the physiology of suppression of the immune system in humans, and on related physical and analytical methods in protein chemistry.
Selected Publications
Kraft, I.; Alexander, S.; Foster, D.; Leachman, R.; Lipscomb, H. Circadian Rhythms in a Human Heart Homograft. Science 1970, 169, 694-696.
Lipscomb, H. S.; Wilson, C.; Retiene, K.; Matsen, F.; Ward, D. N. The Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone. Cancer Research 1968, 28, 378-383.
Holmquest, D. L.; Retiene, K.; Lipscomb, H. S. Circadian Rhythms in Rats: The Effects of Random Lighting. Science 1966, 152, 662-664.
Lipscomb, H. S.; Nelson, D. H. A Sensitive Biologic Assay for ACTH. Endocrinology 1962, 71, 13-23.
Lipscomb, H. S.; Dobson, H. L.; Greene, J. A. Infection in the Diabetic. South. Med. J. 1959, 52, 16-23.
Lipscomb, H. S.; Bean, J.; Dobson, H. L.; Greene, J. A. The Determination of Blood Sugar. Diabetes 1958, 7, 486-489.