Carol Remmer Angle

Dr. Carol Remmer Angle

Carol Remmer Angle, 2012.
Born December 20, 1927
Occupation Pediatrician, Nephrologist, Toxicologist
Spouse(s) Dr. William Angle (deceased 1993)
Children Dr. Marcia Angle
Dr. John F. Angle
Monica Angle

Carol Remmer Angle is an American pediatrician, nephrologist, and toxicologist. Dr. Angle is known as one of the nation's leading researchers on lead poisoning.[1] She is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Angle joined UNMC in 1971[2] and was one of the first women to serve as chair of an academic medical department (pediatrics).[3] She also served as chief of pediatric nephrology, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical toxicology. In 1957, Dr. Angle along with Dr. Matilda McIntire, founded one of the country’s first poison control centers.[4] Dr. Angle is a founding member and a prior president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.[5] For forty years, Dr. Angle served as an expert for NIEHS, National Institutes of Health[6] and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Dr. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.

Education and training

Wellesley College; Cornell Medical School; New York Hospital Pediatric, Internship and Residency; University of Nebraska Hospital, Residency[7]

Offices held and honors

Published works (partial list)

References

  1. ↑ Buttry, Stephen (15 January 2002). "Authority on lead poisoning now focuses on her garden". Omaha World-Herald (News). p. 2B. In more than 40 years at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Angle became one of the nation's leading researchers of lead poisoning, tying elevated blood levels of lead to various environmental causes.
  2. ↑ McMaster, Andrea (21 November 2008). "2008 Legends Honored". UNMC News: University of Nebraska Medical Center. Retrieved 4 December 2012. Through much of her career, she has been active in the National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center and she also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Toxicology -- Clinical Toxicology and the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
  3. ↑ "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. 1 March 1981. p. 10–B. For the first time in its 100-year history, the University of Nebraska College of Medicine has a woman heading one of its departments. Dr. Carol R. Angle who has been on the N.U. faculty since 1954, has been named chairman of the department of pediatrics.
  4. ↑ Bradley, Qianna (4 April 2007). "Center's 50 years of saving lives Poison facts". Omaha World-Herald. The center was begun in 1957 under the leadership of Drs. Matilda McIntire and Carol Angle
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Omahan Heads Poison Agency". Omaha World-Herald. 10 January 1975. p. 4. Dr. Carol Angle, pediatrics professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has assumed the presidency of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
  6. ↑ "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. 1 March 1981. p. 10–B. Dr. Angle, whose research focuses on environmental health related to children, is a member of a research review section for the National Institutes of Health.
  7. ↑ Omaha World-Herald. 10 July 1954. Dr. Angle, who comes from Oakdale, Long Island, originally is a graduate of Wellesley College and Cornell Medical School. She took two years of pediatric training at New York Hospital of Cornell Medical Center and a third year at Childrens Hospital. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ware, Doris Ann (18 January 1970). "Pediatrics and Poison Her Specialties". Omaha World-Herald. p. 7–E. She was director of medical education at Childrens Memorial Hospital from 1954 until 1967, and director of the Nebraska Master Poison Control Center from 1957 until 1966.
  9. ↑ "Sedative-Poisoned Children Will Participate n Study". Omaha World-Herald. 25 March 1966. p. 8. Dr. Carol R. Angle, director of the Poison Control Center at the hospital, will head the project.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "First Chairwoman Named by N.U. College of Medicine". Sunday World-Herald. Douglas County Historical Society. 1 March 1981. p. 10–B. She is clinical director of the N.U. Medical Center's pediatric renal clinic and the Nebraska Birth Defects Clinic.
  11. ↑ Ware, Doris Ann (18 January 1970). "Pediatrics and Poison Her Specialties". Omaha World-Herald. p. 7–E. Dr. Angle is director of the pediatric intensive care unit and the pediatric renal clinic at the university, and is associate editor of the national journal, Clinical Toxicology.
  12. ↑ "Two Leaving N.U. Medical Posts". Omaha World-Herald. 27 March 1980. p. 39. Dr. Carol Angle, professor of pediatrics, will serve as acting chairman of the pediatrics department, starting April 1.
  13. ↑ "Adviser Named". Sunday World-Herald. 17 June 1979. p. 14–B. Dr. Carol Angle, a pediatrics professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's toxicology advisory board.
  14. ↑ "Dr. Angle Selected". Omaha World-Herald. 18 March 1982. p. 4. Dr. Carol Angle, chairman of the department of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been selected as president-elect of the metals specialty section of the Society of Toxicology.
  15. ↑ Setton, Dolly (12 October 1998). "The Berkshire Bunch". Forbes.com. Retrieved 11 December 2012. Dr. Angle still practices medicine, as director of clinical toxicology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
  16. ↑ McMaster, Andrea (21 November 2008). "2008 Legends Honored". UNMC News: University of Nebraska Medical Center. Retrieved 4 December 2012. Through much of her career, she has been active in the National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center and she also has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Toxicology -- Clinical Toxicology and the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
  17. ↑ Buttry, Stephen (15 January 2002). "From cannonballs to gasoline, lead's history is long About this story". Omaha World-Herald (News). p. 1B. Angle, who still edits the Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology, and her colleagues began studying the health effects of emissions from Omaha's industries, which also included an Asarco refinery that eventually closed in 1997.
  18. ↑ "ACMT Awards". Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award: Past Recipients: American College of Medical Toxicology. Retrieved 4 December 2012. A professor emeritus for the UNMC Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Angle joined the UNMC medical staff in 1971 and served in a number of roles including chairman of the department of pediatrics.
  19. ↑ "ACMT Awards". Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award: Past Recipients: American College of Medical Toxicology. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  20. ↑ McMaster, Andrea (21 November 2008). "2008 Legends Honored". University of Nebraska Medical Center. pp. UNMC News. Retrieved 4 December 2012.