The Academic
After his training, Sarnoff spent a dozen years at the Harvard University School of Public Health (1948–1960) as an Assistant Professor of Physiology and he become Chief of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology at the National Heart Institute (1954). It would be here, at the NIH, that Sarnoff would publish some of his most renowned papers in cardiac physiology.
Sarnoff's first paper on ventricular function, published with Erik Berglund, was "Starling's Law of the Heart." After becoming Chief of the Cardiovascular physiology lab at NIH, he initiates a number of studies on valvular heart disease. A succession of prominent cardiac investigators work in Sarnoff's lab, including:
Eugene Braunwald, Joseph Gilmore, Jere Mitchell, William John Powell Jr, Edward Sonnenblick, Andrew Wallace, Myron Weisfeldt
In fact, it would be Sarnoff's experience mentoring Myron Weisfeldt, who was then a young medical student from Johns Hopkins, that would spur him to begin his philanthropic efforts toward medical students.
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