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White, Janet Chamberlin
NA0972 · Person · 1925-

Janet White (née Chamberlin) was born in 1925. A native of Bayport, New York, she entered the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing in 1944 and graduated in 1947. She was editor-in-chief of the Class of 1947 Yearbook.

NA0966 · Corporate body · 1993-1999

Western Queens Community Hospital was the new name given to the former Astoria General Hospital in 1993 following its affiliation with the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Astoria General Hospital was established in 1949 in a building that had been built in 1895 to house the (institutionally unrelated) Astoria Hospital

Weiss, Harvey
NA2143 · Person · 1929-

Dr. Harvey J. Weiss received his AB from Harvard in 1951 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1955. He has had a long career at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He retired in 1999. From 1969-1996, he was the Director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology, first at Roosevelt Hospital, and later at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. Among his major contributions were the first reports that aspirin inhibited platelet aggregation and thrombus formation in experimental models. These observations form the basis for its current use in preventing heart attacks and strokes. He and his colleagues were the first to describe the two major functions of von Willebrand factor, specifically its role in promoting the deposition of platelets at sites of blood vessel injury, and as the carrier protein for Factor VIII in plasma that protects it from proteolysis.