NEW YORK, NY, March 11, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Bruce K. Young, MD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Young celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Young is internationally known as a leader and innovator in Obstetrics and Gynecology. As a first year resident he introduced central venous pressure monitoring to Bellevue Hospital for patients needing intensive care in his department, as well as in the Departments of Surgery and Anesthesia. In 1968, as Chief of Obstetrics at Wilford Hall Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base, he introduced urinary estriol monitoring for the diagnosis of fetal jeopardy. He began the Infertility Service at Wilford Hall Hospital and introduced the newly developed ovulation induction drug, Clomiphene, and the technique of laparoscopy to the Air Force's major teaching hospital. On returning to NYU-Bellevue Medical Center he was appointed Chief of Obstetrics at Bellevue Hospital. In 1970, his first year as Director of the Bellevue Obstetrical Service he performed NYU's first diagnostic amniocenteses for Rh disease. He did the first intrauterine fetal transfusion for Rh disease at the NYU-Bellevue Medical Center in 1971, among the first in this country. Recognizing the potential of this new technique of amniocentesis he introduced prenatal genetic diagnosis and performed the first twenty genetic amniocenteses at the NYU Medical Center, founding the Prenatal Diagnosis program at NYU. He was a member of the Scientists Committee for Public Information, which wrote the guidelines for prenatal diagnosis and amniocentesis. This group established the standards for the New York State Prenatal Diagnostic Center. These standards became the national guidelines for amniocentesis and prenatal diagnosis.
Other clinical innovations followed, including fetal heart rate monitoring for all laboring patients which also became the national standard. He introduced to New York fetal scalp blood pH and umbilical artery blood gas measurements to assess the newborn's condition. He initiated measurements to diagnose fetal lung maturity with L/S ratio assays in order to validate the method at the NYU Medical Center. He developed the technique of intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate for treatment of pre-eclampsia, instead of giving it as an intramuscular injection, which now has completely replaced intramuscular therapy in the United States. He created the Prenatal Diagnostic Unit at Bellevue, the first such facility in New York City.
Dr. Young introduced treatment of the mother with dexamethasone to accelerate fetal lung maturation, publishing the first American study. Steroid therapy now is standard care when there is an anticipated preterm birth. He developed the first obstetrical intensive care unit in the world at the Bellevue Hospital to treat seriously ill pregnant women. He was among the first advocates for assisting women with serious medical conditions to have children, and delivered babies for NYU's first patient with a liver transplant, first paraplegic, first patient with kidney failure, and the first patient with Marfans syndrome at the NYU Medical Center. He was first to describe the significance of fetal cardiac arrhythmias, and reported the first case of intraventricular hemorrhage in an unborn baby. These reports and studies led to his hypothesis that much of what we have called cerebral palsy is related to underlying fetal conditions. This concept now is widely accepted, endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and acknowledged worldwide.
Dr. Young's interest in fetal diagnosis and therapy led to his performing NYU's first invasive fetal surgery, a fetal bladder shunt. He performed the first endoscopic fetal surgery for repair of preterm ruptured membranes, gaining worldwide recognition. In addition to these clinical innovations which have extended the scope and quality of obstetrical care, Dr. Young has important research contributions in the field of maternal and fetal medicine. As an NIH sponsored research fellow with Dr Fritz Beller, and later as a Hirschl Career Scientist he performed research on estrogen metabolism in pregnancy with Dr Mortimer Levitz. Subsequently, he was one of the first investigators to study fetal cardiac physiology, defining the significance of various fetal heart rate patterns and the relationship between fetal metabolism and adverse neonatal outcome. Some of this work is referred to in the major obstetrics textbooks and led to his being selected to write the Technical Bulletin on fetal heart rate monitoring for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. His pioneering work on amniocentesis led to his being designated as an expert panelist for the first NIH Consensus Conference on Antenatal Diagnosis. With Dr. Doris Tse he published the first description of fetal immune responsiveness. Recent research has focused on stem cells derived from human amniotic fluid for new treatments for diabetes, wound healing and other unmet medical needs.
Dr. Young has had positions of leadership throughout his academic career. After serving as a Major, Chief of Obstetrics and Director of the Infertility Service at the Wilford Hall United States Air Force Hospital, Dr. Young returned to the NYU Medical Center as Chief of Obstetrics at Bellevue Hospital and held that position from 1970 to 1995. In 1976 he began the Bellevue midwifery service, the first hospital based midwifery program in NY. He served as its first medical director working with successive nurse midwives to develop and expand the service for 20 years. .In 1975 he became one of the first 3 certified Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists in New York state and founded the Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine at NYU, establishing the first fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at NYU. This was the first Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship in the city of New York and has been continuously recognized as an outstanding program. The fellows have graduated to hold distinguished positions including Department Chairs and Division Directors in the United States, Switzerland, and Israel. They are faculty members at NYU, SUNY Downstate, Einstein, Columbia, University of Connecticut, UMDNJ, Maine Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Berne University, Switzerland and the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Young's contributions were recognized by his colleagues so he was appointed as an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He became the Director of Evaluation for the subspecialty of Maternal Fetal Medicine for certification as a specialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. He is an editor of two international journals and has lectured worldwide, including Heidelberg, Munich, Berlin, and Munster in Germany, Zurich, Berne and Basle in Switzerland, Montreal and as Atlee Visiting Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Axelrod Visiting Professor at Baylor University in Houston, as well as Columbia University in New York and Wayne State University in Detroit. He has earned numerous awards from his resident days onward, beginning with the Barton Award as the honor graduating resident in his year, the Hirschl Career Scientist award, American Medical Association Award for Outstanding Presentation at the national meeting, the March of Dimes award in medical education, the March of Dimes Award for Distinguished Voluntary Service in the prevention of birth defects, March of Dimes Award for Outstanding Voluntary Leadership, a dedicated issue of the Journal of the Bellevue Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, the Distinguished Alumnus Award for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the NYU School of Medicine, Berson Award in Clinical Science from the New York University School of Medicine and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Award for Outstanding Achievement, among others. In 1995 he was appointed Silverman Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology an endowed professorship at the New York University School of Medicine. Other leadership positions of note include membership in the Obstetric Advisory Committee to the New York City Board of Health, the Special Committee on Infant Mortality and the Special Committee on Maternal Mortality for the New York County Medical Society and consultant to the New Jersey Health Systems Agency. He was a director and founding member of the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Director of the New York State Perinatal Society, New York State and New York City Prenatal Diagnostic Centers, Vice President and Director of Medical Education for the Greater New York March of Dimes, President of the New York Obstetrical Society, Chairman of the Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology of the New York Academy of Medicine, and President of the New York Perinatal Society. He has published 135 peer reviewed scientific articles, more than a dozen invited book reviews and book chapters, two medical books, and two books for the general public, "Miscarriage, Medicine and Miracles" and "The Intellectual Devotional: Health".
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