112 ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR WAR 



the NRC committees which had recommended the project, to the Offices 

 of the Surgeons General and fifteen copies to the London office of CMR 

 for distribution in England. 



Reorganization. These attempts at supervision and co-ordination were all 

 useful but the majority of them lacked continuity. The request that NRC 

 committees undertake supervision of research entailed heavy responsibilities. 

 In some fields the committees achieved effective integration; in other in- 

 stances little was accomplished. There was no permanent responsible echelon 

 interposed between CMR and the investigators which could insure the 

 proper execution of contracts. Too much was being attempted by too few. 

 An increasing realization of this fact led to a replacement of the original 

 and simple organization of the Committee on Medical Research by a more 

 elaborate structure in June 1944. 



A Medical Administrative Officer, Dr. Chester S. Keefer, was appointed, 

 and to him was delegated the general responsibility of supervising and 

 administering the scientific performance of all OSRD contracts in the field 

 of medical research. The following divisions and sections were established: 



Division i (Medicine) 

 E. Cowles Andrus, Chief (Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) 

 Section i (Preventive Medicine) 



Colin M. MacLeod, Chief (Bacteriology, New York University) 

 Section 2 (Venereal Diseases) 



J. Earle Moore, Chief (Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) 

 Section 3 (Tropical Diseases and Mycotic Infections) 

 Section 4 (Convalescence, Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Investigation) 

 Emmet B. Bay, Chief (Medicine, University of Chicago) 

 Division 2 (Surgery) 

 John S. Lockwood, Chief (Surgery, Yale University) 

 Section i (Wounds and Burns) 

 Section 2 (Neurosurgery) 



Cobb Pilcher, Chief (Surgery, Vanderbilt University) 

 Section 3 (Surgical Specialities) 

 Division 3 (Aviation Medicine) 



Detlev W. Bronk, Chief (Physiology, University of Pennsylvania) 

 Division 4 (Physiology) 

 Joseph T. Wearn, Chief (Internal Medicine, Western Reserve University) 

 C. N. H. Long, Deputy Chief (Physiology and Biochemistry, Yale 

 University) 

 Section i (Blood Substitutes) 

 Section 2 (Shock) 



Dickinson W. Richards, Jr., Chief (Medicine, Columbia University) 

 Section 3 (Nutrition and Clinical Investigation) 



