Strong, Jack. MD

Jack Strong is a pioneer pathologist-epidemiologist of the Holman-McGill-Strong team originating in the 1950s at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

He is involved in the international atherosclerosis project, the earliest cross-cultural comparisons of youths dying accidental deaths, finding geographic differences (New Orleans vs. Guatemala vs. Bantu, etc.); and was early in demonstrating the propensity for calcification in the left anterior descending coronary artery and its correlation to stenosis, and its significance in relation to an excess rate of ischemia in men vs. women and whites vs. blacks.

Strong served for years as trustee, officer, and president of the American Board of Pathology, on the Epidemiology and Biometry Advisory Committee of NHLBI, and in many academic and teaching organizations.