Medical School Names Heart Specialist from New York to Faculty

A 38-year old heart specialist from New York City was named by Dr. C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the Medical School, last night, as professor of Preventive Medicine. Dr. David D. Rutstein '30, medical director of the New York Heart Association, succeeds Dr. John Gordon.

Gordon, since last July, has been obliged to devote all his time to the demands of his post as head of the department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health.

Deputy Commissioner of Health in New York City until 1946, Rutstein is medical director of the American Council on Rheumatic Fever, and a consultant to the joint research and development board of both the War and Navy Departments.

He has won special distinction in the problems of infections disease, and with the public health aspects of acute rheumatic fever.

During the early years of the war, Rutstein was national director of the gas protection section of the Office of Civilian Defense. Later he became acting director of the New York Bureau of Laboratories.