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F. Eugene Yates

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F. Eugene Yates
Born
Francis Eugene Yates

(1927-02-26)February 26, 1927
DiedJanuary 20, 2015(2015-01-20) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of Texas at Austin
Harvard Medical School
Stanford Medical School
Known forhomeodynamics
Spouse(s)Margaret Barnett (1949-2015; his death; 5 children)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology and Medical Engineering
InstitutionsHarvard University
Stanford Medical School
University of Southern California
University of California Los Angeles

Francis Eugene Yates (February 26, 1927 – January 20, 2015) was an American physiologist and a professor of medicine and medical engineering at University of California Los Angeles.[1]

Biography

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Eugene Yates was born in Eagle Rock, California. During World War II, Yates was in the U.S. Navy as a medical officer and attended University of Texas (Austin). He attended UCLA from 1945-6. He attended Harvard Medical School from 1946-1950 where he received an MD degree. He served in the Korean War in Guam in 1951-1953 and then went on to Stanford Medical School from 1960-1970.[2][3]

Yates married Margaret Barnett Yates, MD in 1949. They had five children, Katherine K. Yates, Gregory B. Yates, Peter F. Yates, Eugene B. Yates, and Anna S. Yates.[4]

His death was failure to thrive from a fracture that resulted from having fallen off his exercise bike in Pacific Palisades, California.[1]

Work

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Yates worked at Harvard University in the Dept. Physiology from 1953-1960. He was at Stanford Medical School, Physiology Dept. 1960-1970. He was at University of Southern California as the Biomedical Engineering Center Executive Director from 1969-1980. From 1980 to 2001, Yates had a joint appointment at UCLA as Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Engineering. He was the first holder of endowed chair, The Ralph and Marjorie Crump Professorship of Medical Engineering from 1980-1988. In 2002, Yates was the Professor of Geriatric Medical Research, Emeritus at Department of Medicine, UCLA. He retired in 2003.[3]

Yates was a Consulting Principal Scientist at the ALZA Pharmaceutical Company from 1969-1997. He was on the External Advisory Council of NASA-affiliated National Space Biomedical Research Inst. Houston, Texas for seven years. He worked as a Science Advisor to the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation in 2003.[4] He was also a member of Scientific Advisory Board for Dakim, Inc.[5]

Contributions

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Yates coined scientific terms including homeodynamics,[6] pharmacolinguistics, pharmacosemiotics.[7]

Yates’ career has included investigations that have been experimental, clinical, and theoretical in congestive heart failure, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-cortical feedback systems, computer modeling of endocrine and metabolic systems, biology especially in regard to self-organizing systems, aging, temporal organization of living systems, and circadian rhythms.[4]

He served on advisory panels for NIH, NSF, FDA, NASA, and FASEB.[1][3] Yates was a founding member and past president of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He was on publications committees for the three societies he founded new scientific journals (AJP: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology for the American Physiological Society; Annals of Biomedical Engineering for the Biomedical Engineering Society; and Endocrine Reviews for the Endocrine Society).

Yates also organized three major international conferences, one on Self-Organizing Systems in 1979 supported by the Ripple Foundation, AIBS (NAS) in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia; Nonlinearites in Brain Function in Santa Barbara, California in 1982 supported by the Kroc Foundation; and Chemically-Based Computer Design in 1983 supported by NSF.[4]

Honors

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Patents

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  • Controlled transdermal administration of melatonin, (1996).[8]

Publications

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Books

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  • 1987. Yates, F. Eugene (Ed.), Self-Organizing Systems, The Emergence of Order, New York, Plenum Press, ISBN 978-1-4613-0883-6.
  • 2012. Yates, F.E. (Ed.), Self-Organizing Systems, The Emergence of Order. Springer Science & Business Media.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dare to Be 100: Gene Yates Is Dead | HuffPost". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  2. ^ "Francis YATES Obituary - Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  3. ^ a b c d "ARTICLES | Advances in Physiology Education". Advan.physiology.org. 2009-12-01. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  4. ^ a b c d "American Physiological Society > F. Eugene Yates". The-aps.org. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  5. ^ F. Eugene Yates M.D. "F. Eugene Yates M.D.: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  6. ^ F. Eugene Yates (2008) Homeokinetics/Homeodynamics: A Physical Heuristic for Life and Complexity, Ecological Psychology, 20:2, 148-179, DOI: 10.1080/10407410801977546
  7. ^ Seeboek, T.A., Semiotics in the United States
  8. ^ US 5508039, Yates, F. Eugene; Taskovich, Lina T. & Yum, Su I. et al., "Controlled transdermal administration of melatonin", published 1996-04-16, assigned to ALZA Corp. 
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