Douglas Huestis

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Biography

I was born in London, Ontario, but brought up in Montreal, educated there and at Port Hope, Ontario, the University of Toronto, and finally McGill University, graduating with an MD in 1948. I trained at the Montreal General Hospital, and spent a couple of years overseas (in Sweden and England, plus a good deal of motorcycle touring around Europe), then moved back to Montreal. I finally landed a paying job as a pathologist in Pittsburgh, and in June of 1955 married the love of my life Rosemary Colford. Five years and three kids later, we moved to Chicago to direct the Mount Sinai Blood Center. Two colleagues and I wrote a textbook, “Practical Blood Transfusion,” Little, Brown & Co., 1st edition 1969. This was well received and went through four editions, covering a period of about 25 years. In 1969, we moved with our five kids to Tucson, Arizona, where I was a professor of pathology at the University of Arizona. Over the next 25 years, I worked on special transfusion methods of treating cancer and leukemia patients, and treating disease using new techniques of blood cell separation. I retired from the university in 1995. Since then I have spent a lot of time reading things I had no time to read before, and took several courses in creative writing. I have written and published some medical history, memoirs, a few book reviews, short stories, and three novels. At 96, I spend my time pottering in the garden, reading, and trying to trace various parts of my family.

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