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Stacey B. Day was born in London, England, on 31 December 1927. He was an Educator and a Physician [1]. He was educated at the Davenant Foundation Grammar School and was evacuated to Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, during World War II [2]. Following military service in the British Army (R.A.E.C.), he graduated in medicine and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland in 1955[3]. He absolved a PhD in Experimental Surgery at McGill University in Canada, 1964[4] and a D.Sc in Surgery at the University of Cincinnati ,1971[5]. He was primarily a Medical Educator[6], with a wide range of scholarly activity devoted to Medicine and Surgical Research, Biopsychosocial, Social, and Public Health; and to Verse, Essays, Literature, Publishing, and Scholarly Translations into English of diverse writings including the Japanese Wisdom Of Hagakure—ISBN:4-87378-389-5 and the Kromeriz Lectures (Problem Maleho Naroda) of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, Founding President of the Czech Republic. Works include:

  • Experimental studies in the Surgical Laboratory of Owen H. Wangensteen, University of Minnesota, 1955-1960 [7]. [8] He undertook research on the surgical treatment of ischaemic heart disease. These studies explored the anatomic basis of the problem and investigated the coronary and intercoronary circulation of the heart in man and animals including early use of pre-surgical, pre-operative coronary angiograms. Work focussed on two physiologic principles: one, the redistribution of blood available to a crippled heart; and two, the restoration of blood flow to ischemic areas of the myocardium following surgical bypass of stenotic or occluded segments of the coronary arteries. This involved exploring development of collateral circulation by vascular grafts; development of collateral circulation by cardiopericardial adhesions; implantation of systemic arteries into the myocardium and other surgical operations. (Surgical Treatment of Ischaemic Heart Disease) ISBN: 0-934314-24-1, and experimental studies on Left Atrial-Pulmonary Artery shunts (low flow shunts) to encourage the development of interarterial intercoronary anastomoses. (Drs Stacey Day and C. Walton Lilleihei/Public Health Service Publications, Issues 778-780) and Day, Blue Baby http://www.jstor.org/stable/3940814. His conclusion in 1959 was that the degree of disease which the surgeon was commonly confronted with indicated the unreality of believing that surgery can "cure" coronary artery disease. If surgery was to succeed the patients would have to come to the surgeon long before the degree of damage to the heart muscle had progressed to critical and sometimes irreversible destruction. For these and associated studies seeking objective evaluation and understanding of the surgical treatment of ischaemic heart disease he was awarded in 1956 the Triennial Reuben Harvey Prize and Medal, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. In 1960 he was awarded the Moynihan Prize and Medal, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Collateral work on the heart investigated low perfusion flow and the role of Critical Closing Pressure in the Hypothermic and Euthermic heart.[9] In association with L. Hinshaw he undertook physiologic studies investigating a role for Tissue Pressure in the Autoregulation of Renal Blood Flow.[10]
  • In Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Shriners Hospital Burns Centre, 1968. Research studies investigated burn-associated gastrointestinal ulcers, a most frequent life-threatening complication of burns. Foremost he emphasised that burn trauma and exigent hemorrhage from the gastrointestinal tract call into play a multiplicity of biologic adaptive physiologic mechanisms and argued that the burn injury must be considered as a trauma involving the entire body economy.[11] He returned to the University of Minnesota in 1972 to set up the Bell Museum of Pathology in the Medical School.[12] When Dr Robert A. Good left Minnesota to take up the post of President, Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York, he invited Day to go with him to Coordinate Communications in a new program of Cancer Research Fields that was set up there.
  • Introduced the Division of Health Communications/Medical Education at the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research [13]He was Professor and Member and Head, Laboratory of Education/Communications, 1973-1980, and Professor in the Post-Graduate Division, Cornell University Medical College. An early leader in Health Communications and Education for Health[14], including integrating Interdisciplinary Communications in Medical Education, he founded in 1975 the journal (Karger, Basel) Biosciences Communications - name later changed to Health Communications and Informatics. In the early 1970's he rejected working from "disciplines" and advocated that research is best undertaken by working from Problems and Issues. These parameters re-inforced his approach to biopsychosocial medicine that he taught from 1970 onward. He summarised concisely that "the biopsychosocial - existential ecological system is an integrated General Systems framework that comprehends good health as well as illness within a unitary universe of cultural, biologic, social, and economic perspectives of Man's total environment"[15]. This commitment to Biopsychosocial Health, Biopsychosocial Medicine, and Primary Health Care was a long lasting feature of his work[16]. [17]
  • Designed and proposed Cancer CIDACS and Consensus Organization in Health Care Systems Management, Biosciences Communications, Health Communications, Integrated Systems for Education for Health.[18]
  • Founded Department of Biopsychosocial and Community Health in the University of Calabar, Nigeria, 1983-1985, interacting with the W.H.O./H.Q., Geneva, and US-AID. Professor and Chairman,in the College of Medicine, and Member of University Senate, University of Calabar. Initiated weekly Education-For-Health programs on Nigerian Radio and Television and produced Public Health TV films for Nigerian Television Authority (TVA) especially the following - Akampka - Primary Health Care; Oncocerciasis in Cross River State; Guinea Worm at Nkpani; Leprosy in Etinan. [19][20]
  • Conferred with Chieftancy Titles, Ntufam Ajan of Oban) 1983. [21]
  • The second non-African to be conferred with Chieftancy title by Ejagham People of South East Nigeria.[22]

W.H.O.

  • In a "Plan For Renewal" for Meharry Medical College, Nashville, he collaborated with the W.H.O. (Geneva), to develop a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. This commitment was established in 1987 - W.H.O. Community Based Education, Problem Based Learning, and Multiprofessional Education. (W.H.O./S.H.R. and H.M.D. Geneva/DDG/W.H.O./Lambo/1984-1987)[23].
  • Honored by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on January 2, 1987, from White House,

The vision of Dr Stacey Day, and his fine team at the Center, builds on a community approach to medicine which is truly international in scope. The effort to bring outstanding medical care to other nations and to help them implement effective health service programs for their peoples is vitally important

This exceptional honor was permanently recorded by Citation in Congressional Record, Senate Proceedings of January 6, 1987, (Proceedings and Debates of the 100th Congress, First Session), Washington, Vol 133, No 1. Meharry Medical College: Tribute as a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Health Manpower Development (928<bullet>) 7JA. Hon. William Hill Boner of Tennessee in the House of Representatives. Tuesday, January 6, 1987. Congressional Record Index 1987, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord.

State of Tennessee, Senate Joint Resolution No 55 : To Honor Meharry Medical College and Collaborators Tennessee State University and Fisk University on the Designation as the World Health Organization's only US Center for Training World Wide Health Care Providers. Adopted February 26, 1987: Ned McWhorter, Governor. Senate Joint Resolutions at http://www.state.tn.us.

  • Decade 1990-2000 he served as Fulbright Professor, Charles University, Prague; Visiting Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Post Graduate Medical School, Prague, and as Permanent Visiting Professor of Medical Education, Oita Medical University, Japan[24].
  • Pametni Medaile, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Praha; Bratislava University Medal, Public Health, Slovak Republic, 1992.

References

  1. ^ (http://www.marquiswhoswho.net/staceybiswasday/)
  2. ^ A.A.Zimmerman, The Davenant Foundation Grammar School: The War Years 1939-1945, ISBN 0-934314-49-7
  3. ^ American Men and Women of Science
  4. ^ www.alumni.mcgill.ca
  5. ^ ucfoundation@uc.edu
  6. ^ Books/subjects/publication dates - http://openlibrary.org
  7. ^ Papers of the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, 1927-1988 by University of Minnesota. Worldcat Identities/Owen H. Wangensteen
  8. ^ Letters of Owen H. Wangensteen To A Surgical Fellow ISBN: 0-934314-25-X).
  9. ^ Am. Physiological Society, Am. J. Phys. Day and Johnson, 1958, ajplegacy.physiology.org
  10. ^ Am. Physiological Society, Am. J. Phys, 1958, Hinshaw and Day,ajplegacy.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/197/2/309
  11. ^ Curling's Ulcer: An Experiment of Nature, ISBN: 0-398-02453-7
  12. ^ University of Minnesota Medical School, 1972, Bulletin of the Bell Museum of Pathobiology.
  13. ^ Sloan Kettering Institute of Cancer Research, Annual report 1973, ISBN: 0-88485-000-5, L.C. 74-82707, 1973.
  14. ^ ISBN: 0-934314-00-4
  15. ^ Nensokan, Trigon-Praha: pp81-88. ISBN: 978-80-86159-83-6
  16. ^ The Advance to Biopsychosocial Medicine, Section Monograph in Soc.Sci.Med. 21:(12):1335 et seq, 1985. PMID: 4095584.
  17. ^ Primary Health Care: Experience of an American Educator. Czech Med. 14:(1):54-64:1991. PMID: 2070690.
  18. ^ Communication of Scientific Information at a Cancer Research Institute, FED PROC,1974 Jun:33(6):1699-1701. PMID 4827518.
  19. ^ Roll University of Calabar, Members of Senate, 1983/84 Session, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
  20. ^ Sunday Chronicle,(No 416, pp8-9), Newspaper, Calabar, Sunday October 31, 1982 and Chronicle newspaper, Calabar, in seriatim. Access through Archives Meharry Medical College Library.
  21. ^ Address by Ntufam and Chiefs, 28 May, 1983 at Oban Town, Cross River State, Nigeria. Access through Oban Town Records.
  22. ^ Opus Cit. Oban Town, Cross River State, Nigeria.
  23. ^ W.H.O/HQ/DDG/T.Lambo. W.H.O.Geneva Collaborating Centres.
  24. ^ 21-seiki ni okeru igakusei oyobi igaku no shimei - The Medical Student and the Mission of Medicine in the 21st century. (In Japanese), Shohan, Kyushu Daigaku Shuppanku, 1996. ISBN: 4873784662

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