Harold Rusch

Credentials: Founding Director, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research; Founding Director, Clinical Cancer Center (now known as Carbone Cancer Center)

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Born:   July 15, 1908; Merrill, Wisconsin
Died:    May 26, 1988; Madison, Wisconsin

Education      

BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1931
MD, University of Wisconsin, 1933

Positions      

  • Intern, Wisconsin General Hospital, 1933-1934
  • Instructor, Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, 1934-1935
  • Bowman Fellow and Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, 1935-1941
  • Assistant Professor of Oncology, University of Wisconsin, 1941-1943
  •  Associate Professor of Oncology, University of Wisconsin, 1943-1945
  •  Professor of Oncology, University of Wisconsin, 1945-1979
  • Director, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, 1946-1972
  • Chairman, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin, 1948-1972
  • Director, Clinical Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, 1972-1978
  • Chairman, Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin, 1975-1978
  • Professor Emeritus of Oncology and Human Oncology, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1979-1988

Memorial Resolution:

Obituary: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35895679/harold_paul-rusch

Oral History: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/62877

Pub Med: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=rusch+h+p+madison

Tribute to Harold P. Rusch by William F. Dove: https://oncology.wisc.edu/dove/pdfs/Rusch_Tribute.pdf

See also: Something Attempted, Something Done. A Personal History of Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin, 1934-1979, by Harold P. Rusch. Published by the Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association, 1984.