Louis T. Benezet Award - Colorado College

Dr. L. Edward Ellinwood '48

Dr. Ellinwood is a nationally-recognized clinical pharmacologist with extensive expertise in the field of lung cancer research. A native of Colorado Springs, Ellinwood attended Colorado College from 1941-1943 before joining the U.S. Navy. He obtained a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Chicago in 1951 and graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1957.

Following his internship at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oceanside, California, Ellinwood became an instructor of toxicology and pharmacology at the University of Chicago and later served as a staff pharmacologist at the world-renowned Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico.

After a six-year tenure as an industrial physician with Union Carbide Nuclear Corporation, Ellinwood spent 13 years as a private practitioner in Grand Junction, Colorado. In 1977, he became the director of the family residence program at St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center in Grand Junction, for which he has served as the director emeritus since 1986.

Ellinwood is currently the principal investigator for clinical drug research trials at St. Mary's and is a co-investigator for the early detection and treatment of lung cancer in uranium miners at the Los Alamos National Laboratories. He has published numerous articles. In 1992, he received a patent for a method he developed for treating lung cancer, for which he also received the Distinguished Patent Award.

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