Andor Szentivanyi {May, 4 1926 to October, 22 2005} was born in Miskolc, Hungary. He was a world renowned scholar, university administrator, and Holocaust survivor. After he escaped a labor camp in the Hungarian interior, he joined an underground group lead by Raoul Wallenberg. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who saved hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews and after the Soviet invasion of Hungary disappeared in gulag.
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As a young man he graduated from Debrecen University of Debrecen, Hungary with a Doctor of Medicine. He went on to a residency in Internal Medicine. While in residency he co-authored the world's first research paper showing the brain regulates immune cells through the hypothalamus. This lead Drs. Ader and Cohen to establish the field of Psychoneuroimmunology.
The field of Psychoneuroimmunology gained acceptance and prestige since its inception. Several scholarly journals specialize in PNI and UCLA established the UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology.
Bill Moyers popularized Psychoneuroimmunology with his TV program and book "Healing and The Mind". Moyers added cridibility to his program by interviewing Nick Hall also from University of South Florida about the case for a mind body connection.
Andor Szentivanyi escaped Hungary with his wife and son Peter in 1956. He taught and researched Allergy/Immunology at University of Chicago where he was a Rockefeller Fellow under his mentor David W. Talmage. He was invited by David W. Talmage to become a Fellow in Allergy/Immunology at Colorado University in Denver.
While teaching at Colorado University, his second son Eddie was born. Eddie changed his last name to the English translation of Szentivanyi {Saint-Ivan}. Edward Saint-Ivan wrote "The Black Knight's God: Horror Anthology" PublishAmerica {2006}.
In 1966, Andor Szentivanyi was appointed Chair of Microbiology at Creighton University. While teaching at Creighton University, he wrote "The Beta-Adrenergic Theory" and it was published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. According to Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the Beta-Adrenergic Theory has been cited more times than anyother paper in the journal's history. The Beta Adrenergic Theory was also named a citation classic useing the Science Citation Index.
The Beta Adrenergic Theory refers to the Beta (2)Adrenergic receptors of smooth muscle cells in the lungs because those receptors affect constriction.
In 1970 Andor Szentivanyi was recruited to University of South Florida medical school. As founding Chair of Pharmacology and Therapeutics he recruited outstanding faculty and won the medical school's highest awards in teaching and research.
After USFs second Dean of Medicine Hollis Boren stepped down Andor Szentivanyi took his place. 'While serving as Dean of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs, Szentivanyi oversaw the construction of two university hospitals and oversaw planning of a third.
In 1986, Szentivanyi decided to resume full time research and the following year he was named University Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology.
In 1988 Szentivanyi won the prestigious Dag Hammarskjold Award for Medicine. That same year Robert A. Good Ex-President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Time coverman nominated Szentivanyi for Nobel Prize in Medicine. This was his second Nobel nomination. In 1968, he was nominated by John McGovern President American Association of Allergy.
In 1995 Szentivanyi and colleague Khalid Ali discovered that IgE antibodies the rosetta stone of all atopic disease block Beta receptors.
In 1999 Andor Szentivanyi won Science of Medicine Award given jointly by American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine. Andor Szentivanyi's wife Judith is a retired Dermatologist in Tampa. He is also survived by his sons Peter Szentivanyi and Edward Saint-Ivan.
In 2012 the University of South Florida appointed Douglas Holt Andor Szentivanyi Professor of Medicine.
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