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ary Medical Society by Boston University. Recently. he was also elected to membership in the Boston University Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha. Two years of pathology residency at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital were followed by internal medicine internship, residency, and fellowship at Massachusetts Memorial Hospital and Lahey Clinic. After one year of medical practice in Massachusetts and three years of Army medicine in Korea and Japan, he joined the internal medicine faculty of the newly established UCLA School of Medicine in 1955. One year later he was asked to form a Division of Rheumatology and was appointed its director. He advanced through the academic ranks, achieving the rank of Professor in 1965. In recognition of his achievements, he was designated Distinguished Professor in 1980.
Dr. Pearson's early scientific contributions were built upon his basic training in pathology and medicine and led to his election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. In 1956, he published a seminal paper describing the development of arthritis, periarthritis, and periostitis in rats given adjuvant. This was the first of many papers in which he dissected the inflammatory and immunologic aspects of adjuvant arthritis. He closely followed the widespread application of this model by the pharmaceutical industry, and later expanded the Division of Rheumatology, orienting it toward the pharmacology and therapy of rheumatic diseases. As the author of more than 250 scientific publications and books, he made major contributions to our understanding of polymyositis, paroxysmal myoglobinuria, relapsing polychondritis, muscular dystrophy, McArdle's disease, familial periodic paralysis, nemaline m yopa thy, cyclophosphamide therapy of Wegener's granulomatosis, and the role of enzyme deficiencies in the hereditary myopathies.
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He died from an acute myocardial infarction