Editing George Whipple (section)

==Career==
In 1905, Whipple joined the pathology department at [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]] as an assistant in pathology.<ref name=":0" /> He was promoted successively to Assistant, Instructor, Associate and associate professor in pathology until he left in 1914.<ref name=":0" /> During this time, he spent a year in [[Panama]] at [[Ancon Hospital]] as a pathologist.<ref name=":0" />  In Panama, he worked with Samuel Darling, a resident pathologist, and General Gorgas to gain experience in tropical diseases.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" /> This experience afforded him the opportunity to study massive hemolysis associated with [[blackwater fever]].<ref name=":2" /> Before returning to [[Johns Hopkins School of Medicine]] after his time in Panama, Whipple traveled to Europe and spent time in the laboratories of Krehl and Morawitz in Heidelberg, where he learned about anemia in rabbits.<ref name=":2" /> In 1911, Whipple went to Vienna to study hepatic portal vein blood flow and its effects on hepatic functions in the dog with Hans Meyer.<ref name=":2" />

In 1914, at 34 years old, Whipple married Katherine Ball Waring of Charleston, South Carolina. They had two children.<ref name=":0" /> He was also appointed Professor of Research Medicine, and Director of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research at the [[University of California]] [[UCSF Medical Center|San Francisco medical school]].<ref name=":0" /> He was dean of that medical school in 1920 and 1921.<ref name=":0" />

In 1921, through the persistence of [[University of Rochester]] President [[Benjamin Rush Rhees]], Whipple agreed to become a Professor and Chairman of Pathology, and the founding Dean of the yet-to-be-built [[University of Rochester Medical Center|medical school (URMC)]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pathology-labs/research-laboratories/george-whipple-lab/whipple.aspx|title=Who is George H. Whipple? – George H. Whipple Lab for Cancer Research – University of Rochester Medical Center|website=www.urmc.rochester.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-11}}</ref> Rhees was so determined to recruit Whipple, he personally flew to UC San Francisco to offer him the opportunity to build the medical school from the ground up.<ref name=":2" /> Whipple found this offer attractive because it would fulfil his passion to create a program which fostered an exchange between clinical and preclinical disciplines.<ref name=":2" /> His vision for the school included housing the medical school and hospital at the same site to facilitate this exchange.<ref name=":5" /> The first students entered [[University of Rochester Medical Center|URMC]] in 1925.<ref name=":5" />

Whipple categorically discriminated against African-American students during his time as dean, and would send a form letter to applicants rejecting their admission and requesting they apply elsewhere. In 1939, A commission of the [[New York State Legislature]] found this practice to be in violation of New York's anti-discrimination laws, after which the URMC began to admit African-American medical students.<ref>New York (State). Temporary commission on the condition of the colored urban population. (1939). ''Second report of the New York state Temporary commission on the condition of the colored urban population to the legislature of the state of New York, February, 1939,'' pp. 114-115. Albany: J. B. Lyon company.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Justin |date=June 7, 2021 |title=George Eastman created Rochester's middle class. Why was the Black community left behind? |pages=18A |work=[[Democrat and Chronicle]] |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/in-depth/news/2021/06/07/george-eastman-kodak-rochester-ny-legacy-black-race-relations-philanthropy/4755198001/ |access-date=December 8, 2022}}</ref>