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John M. Kinney, M.D., and Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS) May 24, 1921–January 20, 2011
Clinical Nutrition 30 (2011) 265–266
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Clinical Nutrition journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/clnu
Obituary
John M. Kinney, M.D., and Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS) May 24, 1921–January 20, 2011
Dr. John M. Kinney, professor of surgery at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons from 1963 to 1987 and a distinguished researcher in the areas of traumatic care, metabolism and nutrition, died peacefully on Thursday, January 20, at his home in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He was 89. Dr. Kinney’s career as a physician and medical researcher spanned more than sixty years. Following his retirement from Columbia in 1987, he became a Visiting Professor at The Rockefeller University, a position he held until 1999. Together with two colleagues he launched Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care in 1998 serving as an editor until 2008. Dr. Kinney authored, co-authored and edited over 400 articles and seven books primarily in the areas of metabolism and nutrition. A member of 17 medical societies and the recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Kinney’s professional invitations included over 300 lectures on trauma, energy metabolism, respiratory function and nutrition. In addition, he received over 60 invitations as a visiting professor from universities and medicals schools throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and China. John Martin Kinney was born May 24, 1921, in Evanston, Illinois. His father, Edwin Hamilton Kinney, was killed in an airplane accident while training as a pilot in the military when John was two. His mother, Mary Martin Kinney, took a job that required her to travel extensively on behalf of the Baptist Church, after which 0261-5614/$ – see front matter doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2011.03.001
John was raised by his maternal grandparents in Grand Junction, Colorado. When John was seven, his grandfather died, and he was raised after that by his grandmother, who died while John was in his first semester as an undergraduate at Denison University. After graduating from Denison in 1943, he entered Harvard Medical School on a full scholarship, from which he graduated in 1946 as an enlisted officer in the navy, where he was assigned to the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco from 1947 to 1949. As one of two medical doctors working at the laboratory, his work focused on the biological effects of radiation related to the atomic proving grounds in the Marshall Islands. Dr. Kinney’s postdoctoral training included National Research Council fellowships in biophysics at the Colorado Medical School from 1949 to 1950 and in biochemistry at Cornell Medical School in New York City from 1950 to 1952. He went on to become Junior and then Senior Assistant Resident Surgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1952 to 1957, and then Chief Resident Surgeon and Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow at the Brigham from 1957 to 1958. Between 1958 and 1963, Dr. Kinney was successively an Instructor and then an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, before becoming an Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University in 1963, then full Professor in 1967, a position he held until his retirement in 1987. At the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, Dr. Kinney conceived, designed, and built the Surgical Metabolism Unit (SMU) intended to combine the care and the study of critically ill patients with emphasis on improved measurement of respiratory function, metabolic-balance studies and the metabolisms of isotopic nutrients associated with acute illness and injury. It represented a groundbreaking approach in the study of the role played by nutrition and metabolism in the recovery of acutely ill and injured patients. When the National Institute of Health launched a national trauma-research program in 1968, Columbia’s SMU was chosen as the flagship unit. The SMU program also provided postdoctoral training for over 40 residents and fellows from across the country and around the world, including the researchers with whom Dr. Kinney later co-founded the nutrition journal. Dr. Kinney cared deeply about ongoing medical research and wished to bring together some of the best minds in his field to learn from, inspire and collaborate with each other. After he retired from Columbia, he organized three Horizons Conferences, funded by Clintec International, to bring together top medical researchers from around the world to consider upcoming directions in energy
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metabolism and critical care medicine. A book was published following each of the conference’s findings. In recognition of Dr. Kinney’s extensive work in the field of nutrition and metabolism, he was honored in 1987 with the establishment of the John M. Kinney Awards, which were endowed in perpetuity by the Nestlé Nutrition Institute and the Nutritional Sciences Education & Research Fund. Awards are given biannually to recognize and support outstanding young researchers in the fields of nutrition and metabolism. The thirteenth John M. Kinney International Awards Ceremony, the first that Dr. Kinney was unable to attend due to declining health, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in February of 2010. Dr. Kinney was pre-deceased by his first wife, Joyce Ann Patnoe, whom he married in 1944 and from whom he divorced in 1969, and their son, Paul Kinney, who died in 2005. In 1972 he married Mimi Taylor Scudder, who collaborated on his research studies until her death in 1997. He is survived by his partner of 13 years, Frances D. MacEachron of Sleepy Hollow, New York; his son Walter Kinney of Sacramento, California; his daughter, Katherine Loving of Amherst, Massachusetts; his stepdaughter, Celine Hubler of Granbury, Texas; and his stepsons Timothy Scudder of Stratford, Connecticut, and Kirby Scudder of Santa Cruz, California; as well as
seven grandchildren. Frances MacEachron had been mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson, where Dr. Kinney lived for many years, and they first met in 1988 when she was performing the marriage ceremony of his stepdaughter, Celine, to her husband, Jack Hubler. A memorial service will be held at the Friends Meeting in Purchase, New York, located on Route 120 near Purchase and Lake Streets on Saturday, February 26, at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent either to the Purchase Friends Meeting at Route 120, Purchase, New York 10577, or to the Staff Appreciation Fund at Kendal-on-Hudson, 1010 Kendal Way, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591.
Conflict of interest There are no conflict of interest. Michael M. Meguid Department of Surgery, University Hospital, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA E-mail address: [email protected] 17 February 2011
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Clinical Nutrition journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/clnu
Obituary
John M. Kinney, M.D., and Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS) May 24, 1921–January 20, 2011
Dr. John M. Kinney, professor of surgery at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons from 1963 to 1987 and a distinguished researcher in the areas of traumatic care, metabolism and nutrition, died peacefully on Thursday, January 20, at his home in Sleepy Hollow, New York. He was 89. Dr. Kinney’s career as a physician and medical researcher spanned more than sixty years. Following his retirement from Columbia in 1987, he became a Visiting Professor at The Rockefeller University, a position he held until 1999. Together with two colleagues he launched Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care in 1998 serving as an editor until 2008. Dr. Kinney authored, co-authored and edited over 400 articles and seven books primarily in the areas of metabolism and nutrition. A member of 17 medical societies and the recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Kinney’s professional invitations included over 300 lectures on trauma, energy metabolism, respiratory function and nutrition. In addition, he received over 60 invitations as a visiting professor from universities and medicals schools throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and China. John Martin Kinney was born May 24, 1921, in Evanston, Illinois. His father, Edwin Hamilton Kinney, was killed in an airplane accident while training as a pilot in the military when John was two. His mother, Mary Martin Kinney, took a job that required her to travel extensively on behalf of the Baptist Church, after which 0261-5614/$ – see front matter doi:10.1016/j.clnu.2011.03.001
John was raised by his maternal grandparents in Grand Junction, Colorado. When John was seven, his grandfather died, and he was raised after that by his grandmother, who died while John was in his first semester as an undergraduate at Denison University. After graduating from Denison in 1943, he entered Harvard Medical School on a full scholarship, from which he graduated in 1946 as an enlisted officer in the navy, where he was assigned to the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory in San Francisco from 1947 to 1949. As one of two medical doctors working at the laboratory, his work focused on the biological effects of radiation related to the atomic proving grounds in the Marshall Islands. Dr. Kinney’s postdoctoral training included National Research Council fellowships in biophysics at the Colorado Medical School from 1949 to 1950 and in biochemistry at Cornell Medical School in New York City from 1950 to 1952. He went on to become Junior and then Senior Assistant Resident Surgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1952 to 1957, and then Chief Resident Surgeon and Arthur Tracy Cabot Fellow at the Brigham from 1957 to 1958. Between 1958 and 1963, Dr. Kinney was successively an Instructor and then an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, before becoming an Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University in 1963, then full Professor in 1967, a position he held until his retirement in 1987. At the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, Dr. Kinney conceived, designed, and built the Surgical Metabolism Unit (SMU) intended to combine the care and the study of critically ill patients with emphasis on improved measurement of respiratory function, metabolic-balance studies and the metabolisms of isotopic nutrients associated with acute illness and injury. It represented a groundbreaking approach in the study of the role played by nutrition and metabolism in the recovery of acutely ill and injured patients. When the National Institute of Health launched a national trauma-research program in 1968, Columbia’s SMU was chosen as the flagship unit. The SMU program also provided postdoctoral training for over 40 residents and fellows from across the country and around the world, including the researchers with whom Dr. Kinney later co-founded the nutrition journal. Dr. Kinney cared deeply about ongoing medical research and wished to bring together some of the best minds in his field to learn from, inspire and collaborate with each other. After he retired from Columbia, he organized three Horizons Conferences, funded by Clintec International, to bring together top medical researchers from around the world to consider upcoming directions in energy
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metabolism and critical care medicine. A book was published following each of the conference’s findings. In recognition of Dr. Kinney’s extensive work in the field of nutrition and metabolism, he was honored in 1987 with the establishment of the John M. Kinney Awards, which were endowed in perpetuity by the Nestlé Nutrition Institute and the Nutritional Sciences Education & Research Fund. Awards are given biannually to recognize and support outstanding young researchers in the fields of nutrition and metabolism. The thirteenth John M. Kinney International Awards Ceremony, the first that Dr. Kinney was unable to attend due to declining health, was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in February of 2010. Dr. Kinney was pre-deceased by his first wife, Joyce Ann Patnoe, whom he married in 1944 and from whom he divorced in 1969, and their son, Paul Kinney, who died in 2005. In 1972 he married Mimi Taylor Scudder, who collaborated on his research studies until her death in 1997. He is survived by his partner of 13 years, Frances D. MacEachron of Sleepy Hollow, New York; his son Walter Kinney of Sacramento, California; his daughter, Katherine Loving of Amherst, Massachusetts; his stepdaughter, Celine Hubler of Granbury, Texas; and his stepsons Timothy Scudder of Stratford, Connecticut, and Kirby Scudder of Santa Cruz, California; as well as
seven grandchildren. Frances MacEachron had been mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson, where Dr. Kinney lived for many years, and they first met in 1988 when she was performing the marriage ceremony of his stepdaughter, Celine, to her husband, Jack Hubler. A memorial service will be held at the Friends Meeting in Purchase, New York, located on Route 120 near Purchase and Lake Streets on Saturday, February 26, at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent either to the Purchase Friends Meeting at Route 120, Purchase, New York 10577, or to the Staff Appreciation Fund at Kendal-on-Hudson, 1010 Kendal Way, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591.
Conflict of interest There are no conflict of interest. Michael M. Meguid Department of Surgery, University Hospital, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA E-mail address: [email protected] 17 February 2011