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| LOUIS T. BENEZET AWARD RECIPIENT
2003 |
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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