Longtime Marshfield Clinic Cardiologist Passes Away
Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 -- 8:14 AM
-Dr. Dean Emanuel, a longtime Marshfield Clinic cardiologist and world-renowned researcher who sought to cure ailments that afflicted farmers in Wisconsin's rural communities, died Sunday in Marshfield. He was 92.Emanuel, who joined the Clinic's staff in 1958, had a deep interest in respiratory illnesses and farmer's lung disease in addition to his care for his patients with heart disease.
His work, along with the work of Clinic leaders at the time, led to the creation of Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in 1959. Just one year later, he helped MCRF receive its first National Institutes of Health grant ? $40,000 to study Farmer's Lung Disease, a form of chronic pneumonia caused by inhaling mold spores found in baled hay, stored grain or silage with a high moisture content.
He was honored by many health care and agriculture organizations with lifetime achievement awards. Emanuel also was instrumental in the creation of the National Farm Medicine Center, a program of MCRF.
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