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(Hypertension. 2001;37:1045.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

In Memoriam

David H.P. Streeten, MB, DPhil, FRCP

Harold Smulyan; Arnold Mose

	Introduction

 
David Streeten was born, educated, and began his life’s work in South Africa. He distinguished himself early by graduating with distinction from the University of South Africa in Bloemfontein and with first-class honors from the Medical School at the University of Witwatersrand. After 2 years as a house officer, he moved to the University of Oxford, where he obtained his DPhil degree while collaborating extensively with E.M. Vaughn Williams. Although this experience launched his research career, the subject of his investigations, intestinal motility, was never revisited. From Oxford, he came to the United States, where he trained with George Thorn in Endocrinology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. There, his research centered about the actions of corticotropin and hydrocortisone. His first full-time faculty position was in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. While working there with Drs Jerome Conn and Stefan Fajans, he established a novel bioassay for the newly discovered aldosterone. This assay was used to make the first confirmed diagnosis of primary aldosteronism as a new secondary cause of hypertension. While in Ann Arbor, he also became interested in periodic paralysis, diabetes, and autonomic control of the circulation, which occupied much of his research attention for the rest of his career. In 1960, we had the good fortune to recruit him to the University Hospital of the State University of New York at Syracuse, where he began and led the Endocrinology Division in the Department of . . . [Full Text of this Article]