Louis Cesare Lasagna was an American physician and professor of medicine, known for his revision of the Hippocratic Oath.
13 Facts About Louis Lasagna
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Louis Lasagna graduated from Rutgers University in 1943 and earned his medical degree from Columbia University in 1947.
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Louis Lasagna taught medicine and pharmacology at Johns Hopkins until 1970, when he accepted the position as the first chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Rochester's, School of Medicine and Dentistry, which he held for the next decade.
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Early in his fourteen-year career at Rochester, Louis Lasagna founded the Center for the Study of Drug Development, later called the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
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Louis Lasagna was well known for his simple eloquence, as well as his sense of humor and humanity in addressing such controversial topics as birth control, abortion, euthanasia, and medical experimentation on humans.
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In 1964, Louis Lasagna wrote a modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, which emphasized a holistic and compassionate approach to medicine.
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Today, the "Louis Lasagna Oath" has been adopted by many medical colleges.
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Louis Lasagna was the author of the book The Doctors' Dilemmas.
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Louis Lasagna served as a consultant to, and headed, several Federal commissions on Federal drug approval.
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Louis Lasagna's work led to the improvement of controlled clinical trials to test drug effectiveness, and improved the regulation of drugs for effectiveness and safety.
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In 1962 Louis Lasagna delivered testimony to Congress during the Kefauver hearings on the 1962 amendments to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
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Louis Lasagna's guidance resulted in, among other things, the requirement for controlled clinical trials as necessary for proving drug effectiveness as a condition for regulatory approval of a new drug which resulted in major improvements in the evidentiary standard in the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Louis Lasagna was survived by his wife Helen; children Nina, David, Mosie, Krissy, Lisa, Peter, and Christopher; and grandchildren Molly, Joe, Maggie, Emma, Kari, Alison, Deacon, and Carmen.