Contributions During World War II
In 1941, Alexander Ashley Weech, MD, became the second director of the Children's Hospital Research Foundation of Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and chief of staff of Children's Hospital.
Many of Children's Hospital physicians and research workers were called into the armed forces during World War II.
A team from Children's Hospital was part of a larger team researching the effects of high-altitude flying. Some did research on dysentery, and Samuel Rapoport, MD, with help and support of Paul Hoxworth, M.D., developed a way for preserving whole blood that would allow it to be air-transported anywhere in the world and stored long enough to be used in field hospitals.
In 1938, Dr. Paul Hoxworth founded the Hoxworth Blood Center at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The Hoxworth Blood Center is the only blood center for the Greater Cincinnati area.
