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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume
101, Supplement 4, December 1993
Dedication
Dr. Richard DeKeraine Remington August 2, 1931 - July 26, 1992 Chairman, Health
Effects Institute Research Committee 1989
to 1992
The Health Effects Institute dedicates the Epidemiology Planning Project
documents to the memory of Dr. Richard D. Remington, a member of the Project
Steering Committee and chairman of the HEI Research Committee from 1989
until June 1992.
Dr. Remington was committed to improving the lives of individuals through
public health research, education, and music. His research concentrated
on the epidemiology and control of cardiovascular diseases, in particular
hypertension and stroke. He served in leadership roles in many local, state,
and federal health agencies. As vice president for research and vice president
for scientific councils, Remington developed the "Remington Plan"
for reorganizing the American Heart Association. He was also a past president
of the Association of Schools of Public Health and a member of The National
Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. At the University of Iowa, Dr.
Remington served as director of the Institute for Health, Behavior and Environmental
Policy, and he was honored for his contributions to education by being named
the University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Preventive
Medicine and Environmental Health. Dr. Remington was also an accomplished
musician who played tuba with the Alamo City Jass Band in San Antonio in
the early 1960s and more recently with the Boll Weevil Jass Band in Ann
Arbor.
At HEI, Dr. Remington provided great insight and forceful leadership
for the Research Committee during a time when epidemiologic research was
moving to the forefront of the institute's research agenda. He was the staunchest
advocate for the role of epidemiology in environmental research in general
and for the Epidemiology Planning Project in particular. His leadership
in the institute helped bring quality science that benefits public health
to the regulatory process. All those who worked with him at HEI are wiser
and richer for the experience.
