FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

Dr. Joseph T. Doyle graduated from Harvard College (1935) and Harvard Medical School (1943). He completed his internship at Boston City Hospital and then entered the United States Army Medical Corps. Following the war, he returned to Boston to complete his training in medicine, serving as chief resident at Boston City Hospital from 1948-1949. He completed his postgraduate training as the Whitehead fellow in physiology from 1949-1950 at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. He later had teaching appointments at Emory and Duke University. Dr. Doyle was recruited to Albany in 1952 to create and direct the Cardiovascular Health Center (CHC). The CHC was one of the pivotal cardiovascular epidemiology projects that led to much of our current understanding of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Doyle was the dean of Albany's cardiology community, having served on the Albany Medical College faculty since 1952 and achieving the rank of full professor in 1961. From 1960 through 1984, he served as head of the division of cardiology for the college and the Albany Medical Center Hospital.

Dr. Doyle served as president of the Medical Society of Albany County, as president of the Heart Association of Eastern New York, as a member of the cardiac advisory committee of the New York State Health Department and the committees on cardiovascular disease and medical school relationships for the Medical Society of the State of New York. He served as the committee chair of the committee on conduct of the Office of Professional Medical Conduct. He was a former governor of Upstate New York for the American College of Cardiology.

He served as chairman of the American Heart Association's council on epidemiology and as a member of the committee on smoking. He was a consultant to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Dr. Doyle was the author of over 130 publications, many of the products of his research as the director of the CHC. His landmark articles in the New Eng1and Journal of Medicine in 1962 and in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1964 first alerted the world to the association between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease. His publications using the combined data from the CHC and Framingham Heart studies resulted in our knowledge of the risk factors associated with sudden cardiac death, of the risk associated with a low HDL level, and of the perceived health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption on raising HDL levels. For 55 years, Dr. Doyle was a tireless servant to the people of the Capital District, the State of New York, the Nation, and, through his landmark research, the world.