Mary Jeanne Kreek

Mary Jeanne Kreek (born 1937) is an American neurobiologist specializing in the study and treatment of addiction. She is best known for her work with Marie Nyswander and Vincent Dole in the development of methadone therapy for heroin addiction.[1]

Mary Jeanne Kreek
Born1937
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWellesley College
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Known forMethadone therapy
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
InfluencesVincent Dole, Marie Nyswander

Personal life

Her father, Louis Francis Kreek, was an Examiner-in-Chief and served on the Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.[2] On January 24, 1970, she married Dr. Robert A. Schaefer.[2]

Education

Kreek graduated with a B.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College in 1958,[3] and in 1962, she received her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.[4]

Career

Kreek completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center after completing her M.D. She taught medicine at the Cornell Medical College.[2]

In 2000, Kreek was named a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 2004, she received an Alumni Gold Medal Award from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for "lifetime excellence in medicine".[5] In 2014, Kreek was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Institute on Drug Addiction.[4]

As of November 2015, she is a Senior Attending Physician, the Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor, and Head of the Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases at The Rockefeller University.[4]

References
  1. Wren, Christopher (3 October 1998). "Holding an Uneasy Line In the Long War on Heroin; Methadone Emerged in City Now Debating Its Use". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  2. "Dr. R.A. Schaefer Weds List of Entertainment Benefit Parties; Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek". The New York Times (60). 24 January 1970. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  3. "Mary Jeanne Kreek '58". Wellesley College. Wellesley College. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. "MARY JEANNE KREEK, M.D." Rockefeller University. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  5. Macpherson, Calum (11 February 2005). "Sixth Annual WINDREF Lecture". SGU Gazette. Retrieved 22 November 2015.


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