F. Eugene Yates

F. Eugene Yates
Born Francis Eugene Yates
(1927-02-26)February 26, 1927
Eagle Rock, California, U.S.
Died January 20, 2015(2015-01-20) (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Fields Physiology and Medical Engineering
Institutions Harvard University
Stanford Medical School
University of Southern California
University of California Los Angeles
Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Harvard Medical School
Stanford Medical School
Known for homeodynamics
Spouse Margaret Barnett (1949-2015; his death; 5 children)

Francis Eugene Yates (February 26, 1927 – January 20, 2015) was an American physiologist and a professor of medicine and medical engineering at University of California Los Angeles.[1]

Biography

Eugene Yates was born in Eagle Rock, California. During World War II, Yates was in the U.S. Navy as a medical officer and attended University of Texas (Austin). He attended UCLA from 1945-6. He attended Harvard Medical School from 1946-1950 where he received an MD degree. He served in the Korean War in Guam in 1951-1953 and then went on to Stanford Medical School from 1960-1970.[2][3]

Yates married Margaret Barnett Yates, MD in 1949. They had five children, Katherine K. Yates, Gregory B. Yates, Peter F. Yates, Eugene B. Yates, and Anna S. Yates.[4]

His death was failure to thrive from a fracture that resulted from having fallen off his exercise bike in Pacific Palisades, California.[1]

Work

Yates worked at Harvard University in the Dept. Physiology from 1953-1960. He was at Stanford Medical School, Physiology Dept. 1960-1970. He was at University of Southern California as the Biomedical Engineering Center Executive Director from 1969-1980. From 1980 to 2001, Yates had a joint appointment at UCLA as Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Engineering. He was the first holder of endowed chair, The Ralph and Marjorie Crump Professorship of Medical Engineering from 1980-1988. In 2002, Yates was the Professor of Geriatric Medical Research, Emeritus at Department of Medicine, UCLA. He retired in 2003.[3]

Yates was a Consulting Principal Scientist at the ALZA Pharmaceutical Company from 1969-1997. He was on the External Advisory Council of NASA-affiliated National Space Biomedical Research Inst. Houston, Texas for 7 years. He worked as a Science Advisor to the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation in 2003.[4] He was also a member of Scientific Advisory Board for Dakim, Inc.[5]

Contributions

Yates coined scientific terms including homeodynamics, pharmacolinguistics, pharmacosemiotics.[6]

Yates’ career has included investigations that have been experimental, clinical, and theoretical in congestive heart failure, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-cortical feedback systems, computer modeling of endocrine and metabolic systems, biology especially in regard to self-organizing systems, aging, temporal organization of living systems, and circadian rhythms.[4]

He served on advisory panels for NIH, NSF, FDA, NASA, and FASEB.[1][3] Yates was a founding member and past president of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He was on publications committees for the three societies he founded new scientific journals (AJP: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology for the American Physiological Society; Annals of Biomedical Engineering for the Biomedical Engineering Society; and Endocrine Reviews for the Endocrine Society).

Yates also organized three major international conferences, one on Self-Organizing Systems in 1979 supported by the Ripple Foundation, AIBS (NAS) in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; Nonlinearites in Brain Function in Santa Barbara, California in 1982 supported by the Kroc Foundation; and Chemically-Based Computer Design in 1983 supported by NSF.[4]

Honors

Patents

Publications

Books

Conference Papers and Technical Reports

Selected Articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dare to be 100 Gene Yates
  2. ↑ Gene Obituary
  3. 1 2 3 4 Physiology Website
  4. 1 2 3 4 APS Living History
  5. ↑ Bloomberg Research
  6. ↑ Seeboek, T.A., Semiotics in the United States

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