Former head of the department of medicine University of Oklahoma, USA (b Baltimore 1914; q Johns Hopkins Medical School 1938), died from Alzheimer's disease on 25 September 2005.
Steward Wolf did postgraduate training at Cornell-New York Hospital. He subsequently headed the department of medicine at the University of Oklahoma, where he simultaneously held professorships in physiology, neurology, psychiatry, and the behavioural sciences. Sometimes referred to as “the father of psychosomatic medicine,” he did groundbreaking research on the role of stress and emotions on gastrointestinal function, hypertension, heart attacks, and sudden death, the placebo response, and the cardioprotective effects of strong social support and stability.
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