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(Circulation Research. 2002;90:365.)
© 2002 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

In Memoriam

Robert M. Berne, MD

Brian Duling

From the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Va. E-mail brd@virginia.edu

Correspondence to Brian Duling, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, PO Box 10011, Charlottesville, VA 22906-0011. E-mail brd@virginia.edu

Robert M. Berne, MD, former chairman of the Department of Physiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center, died on Thursday, October 4, 2001, at his home in Charlottesville, Va. Dr Berne’s service to cardiovascular research was exemplary. He was on the editorial board of Circulation Research for most of his professional life, and he was Editor in Chief from 1970 to 1975. Dr Berne was a man of many accomplishments: a devoted and steadfast husband, a loving father and grandfather, a leader of the University of Virginia, and a scientist of world class. He touched family, friends, scientific colleagues, and many others through whose life he passed, especially those whose growth he nurtured. Dr Berne was born in Yonkers, NY, grew up and was schooled in Brooklyn, and attended the University of North Carolina. He entered Harvard Medical School with the class of 1943. In late 1944, he became a medical officer with the US Army, and at the end of the war, he returned to a residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai and preparation for a career in cardiology and the study of the cardiovascular system. A fellowship with Dr Carl Wiggers launched Dr Berne on a lifetime of research and teaching and a collaboration with a lifelong friend, Matthew Levy. He became Chair of the Physiology Department at the University of Virginia in 1966 and served in that capacity until 1988. With quiet strength and gentle leadership, he built one of the premier physiology departments in . . . [Full Text of this Article]