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D r. William Bates Greenough III began his medical career after graduating from Amherst College in 1953, entering Harvard Medical School and graduating in 1957. His internship and residency were at the Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons in 1957 and later at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1961. Between 1959 and 1961, he served as a fellow of the National Cancer Institute located at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N.Y., where he assisted his mentor, Dr. E.D. Thomas (who later received the Nobel Prize), with the first bone marrow transplants in the U.S. In 1962 he joined the U.S. Public Health Service, was deputed to the National Institutes of Health, and posted in East Pakistan at the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Laboratory. There he helped lay the scientific basis for intravenous and oral hydration cures for cholera and related diarrheal diseases.

WilliamBatesGreenough III,MD Medical Educator Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Returning to the NIH in 1965, he worked on fatty acid metabolism and in 1967 joined Johns Hopkins University, where he and his colleagues demonstrated the mechanism of cholera toxin and its receptors, providing a scientific basis for an oral cholera vaccine. In 1977 he returned to Dhaka, now Bangladesh, assisting in the establishment of the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research Bangladesh. He was appointed its director, serving until 1985, and returned to Johns Hopkins, where he has conducted research to improve the care of older individuals by demonstrating the benefits of taking hospital-based technologies to the patient at home instead of forcing such patients to come to the emergency room and be hospitalized. During his career he also established the Bangladesh Information Center, which assisted in the emergence of Bangladesh, and contributed articles to medical and scientific journals, as well as book chapters and review articles. He is a scientific advisor to Cera Products Inc., which produces an advanced rice-based oral hydration product. Dr. Greenough remains active in his field by demonstrating the improved safety of caring for ventilator-dependent older patients in their homes as opposed to hospitals or nursing homes.

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