As a longtime president of the Carnegie Corp., the former psychiatrist led initiatives to prevent genocide and foster education.
By Eryn Brown April 21 at 1:30 PM On May 20, 1975, David A. Hamburg, a psychiatrist at Stanford University and an expert in the study of stress, arrived at his office to find a stressful situation of his own: His door was papered over with urgent messages from Stanford officials, the State Department, newspapers and terrified families.
Dr. Hamburg, whose service as head of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and other prestigious organizations was honored by the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, died April 21 at a hospital in Washington at 93. The cause was ischemic colitis, obstructed blood flow to the large intestine, said his daughter, Margaret A. Hamburg.
“The subject of violence is old wine,” Dr. Hamburg told the New York Times when the report came out. “The new bottle is the technology enabling the contagion to spread.” “David was a psychiatrist who rose beyond that field to bring concepts of patient care and patient dignity to the general community,” said Herbert Pardes, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia and Cornell medical schools and former president of the New York-Presbyterian hospital system. “This was prophylaxis for peace.”
Dr. Hamburg said he told Clinton that he had witnessed the seeds of such tribal conflict as early as the 1970s, when he had visited Africa for research. David Allen Hamburg was born in Evansville, Ind., on Oct. 1, 1925. His grandfather was a pushcart peddler who had fled anti-Semitic pogroms in Latvia in 1900 and settled in the Indiana town. Dr. Hamburg said that his family history inspired his work fighting genocide.
At Yale University, he studied the impact of stress on the brain, working to develop tests to more precisely measure cortisol and other stress hormones, and analyzing the activation of stress responses in people who were depressed.
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