Meyer, Karl Friedrich

1884-1974. Of the Hooper Foundation in California. See http://history.library.ucsf.edu/meyer.html. Mentioned in the 11/12/1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. “Carl” in the 1954-03-04-11 minutes.

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1930; 94: 190 : “…Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., president of the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions, ...”
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1933; 100: 1260: The sixth annual meeting of the Arizona Public Health Association was held at Tucson, April 17-19, under the presidency of Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Tucson. Speakers included Drs. Frederick T. Foard, Jr., of the U. S. Public Health Service on "Public Health Administration" ; Warren F. Fox, El Centro, Calif., "Public Health in Imperial County" ; Edwin B. Godfrey, San Bernardino, "Function of a County Health Department," and Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, San Francisco, "Certain Aspects of Undulant Fever." Speakers at other sessions included Drs. Platt W. Covington of the Rockefeller Foundation and Allen K. Krause, Tucson.
JAMA, May 1960; 173: 270: Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., San Francisco, was named the recipient of the 1960 Howard Taylor Ricketts Memorial Award of the University of Chicago. Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall, vice-president in charge of medical affairs of the University of Chicago, announced the award. Dr. Meyer is director emeritus of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research of the University of California and professor emeritus of experimental pathology, University of California. Dr. Meyer will visit the University of Chicago on June 6 to accept the award and to deliver the annual Ricketts Lecture, "Plague in the Light of Newer Knowledge," at 5 p. m. in Room P117, Billings Hospital. The recipient of the Howard Taylor Ricketts Memorial Award is traditionally announced on May 3, the anniversary of the death in 1910 of Dr. Ricketts, University of Chicago bacteriologist. Dr. Ricketts showed that ticks transmit Rocky Mountain fever. Dr. Meyer has been a member of the faculty of the University of California since 1913.
JAMA, Jan 1971; 215: 27 - 36: Karl F. Meyer, PhD, DVM, MD (honorary) has received the 1970 Bristol Award of the Infectious Disease Society of America for his more than 50 years of work in many areas. The award consists of a gold medal, a scroll, and a $2,500 honorarium. Dr. Meyer, who remains active in his laboratory, is director emeritus of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research and professor emeritus of experimental pathology at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center School of Medicine. In addition, he is a general consultant to the State of California Board of Health, a public health consultant to the Southern Pacific Railway, a consulting bacteriologist to the Langley Porter Clinic in San Francisco, a consultant to the Surgeon General's Medical Research and Development Board, and a member of the Study Section on Microbiology and Immunology of the US Public Health Service Grants Division. Dr. Meyer also serves as a consultant to the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga.
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