We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

He continued on the faculty of Harvard until 1956 although he had resigned his position as Chief of the Cardiac Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1948 to devote time to the development of the National Heart Institute following adoption of the National Heart Act which was signed into law by President Truman in 1948. Roger I. A.

He was one of the leading cardiologists of his day and a prominent advocate of preventative medicine.