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Medical Alumni Citation Award - WMAA
The award honors a Medical School alumnus who has achieved distinction in medicine. Achievement is recognized through excellence in the practice of medicine, in academic activities, and in research accomplishment.
John Steinhaus, M.D., Ph.D.
John E. Steinhaus came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for his medical degree in 1941 after completing an undergraduate and a graduate degree at the University of Nebraska. Following medical school, Dr. Steinhaus enlisted in the military. Upon returning, he got his Ph.D. in Pharmacology, completed a post-doctoral fellowship and residency at the UW and taught at both Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin.
In 1958, Dr. Steinhaus became the Chief of Anesthesiology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and then moved to a similar position at Emory University Hospital in 1979. He began teaching in the Emory Department of Anesthesiology in 1958, and continued throughout his career. Dr. Steinhaus’s research focused on pharmacological action of anesthetics and other drugs affecting the central nervous system and the heart. Because of the shortage of anesthesia personnel, he began a national recruitment effort as the Chairman of the Training and Recruiting Sub-committee of the Anesthesia Survey Committee. He also served on numerous other national committees throughout his career.
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