{"id":2019,"date":"2013-12-03T12:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:37:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:37:15","slug":"bernard-lown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/bernard-lown\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 89: Nobel Laureate & Developer of the DC Defibrillator Dr. Bernard Lown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a089
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0November 30
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Bernard Lown
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Bernard Lown is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and is the developer of the
\nmodern DC defibrillator.\u00a0\u00a0Lown is\u00a0also the founder and emeritus Chairman\u00a0of The Lown Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 Lown grew up in Lithuania, but immigrated to the United States at age 13.\u00a0 Lown graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Maine<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Lown received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.\u00a0 Lown has received honorary degrees: from Bates, Colby College and the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the University of New England.\u00a0 He also has a bridge named in his honor in Lewiston\/Auburn.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of The Lown Institute<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1961, Lown developed the DC defibrillator.\u00a0 Lown conducted extensive animal research to define a less traumatic and more effective form of electric shock to fibrillate the heart.\u00a0 This work resulted in what became known as the “Lown waveform”; a single heavily damped sinusoidal waveform with a half cycle time of approximately 5 milliseconds.<\/p>\n

Lown passionately believes that physicians are natural advocates for the sick, the poor, and the afflicted. \u00a0In the early 1960s he was a founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), <\/a>and became its first president.\u00a0 The PSR organization helps educate and protect millions of people on the medical consequences of nuclear war, and the threat to global society from climate change and environmental toxins.<\/p>\n

In 1981 he co-founded, with Dr. Yevgeny Chazov from the Soviet Union, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). \u00a0<\/a>His peace activities have been recognized with a UNESCO Peace Prize, the Cardinal Medeiros Peace Award, the Gandhi Peace Prize, some 20 honorary degrees, and the Nobel Peace Prize, which he accepted in 1985 on behalf of IPPNW.<\/p>\n

Stevoe and Lown discussed that the threat of nuclear war is no longer our biggest concern.\u00a0 Lown stressed that climate change now is bigger than the nuclear threat, because nuclear wouldn\u2019t destroy all life.<\/p>\n

Lown is the founder and emeritus Chairman of SATELLIFE<\/a>, an international non-profit organization that uses satellite and Internet technologies to serve the health communication and information needs of developing countries. \u00a0Lown is also the founder of ProCor<\/a>, an ongoing, worldwide e-mail and web-based electronic conference that addresses the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1971, The Lown Institute seeks to \u201ccreate and foster a new social contract between the profession of medicine, the business of healthcare, and civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods recently held a phone interview with the world-renowned Dr. Bernard Lown, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Lown Institute, developer of the defibrillator, a Gandhi Peace Prize winner, Nobel Peace Prize winner and University of Maine graduate. The two had the opportunity to discuss the development and the technology of the DC defibrillator, and how it has been life changing all around the globe. Lown also told Stevoe about the founding of SatelLife, ProCor and The Lown Institute. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}