EDUCATION

Diploma, Three Rivers High School, Three Rivers, Michigan June 9, 1938.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan May 30, 1942

Doctoris in Arte Medica, Universitatis Republica Michigancusium (cum laude), Ann Arbor, Michigan July 29, 1944.

Internship, Surgery Fourth Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York 1944-45.

Medical Officer, Medical Corps, Army of the United States 1944-47

Postgraduate training in Pathologic Anatomy, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1948-51.

Master of Science (Pathology), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan June 17, 1950.

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Visiting Scientist and Medical Officer, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 1951-55.

Group Leader, Mammalian Recovery Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1955-1973.

Professor (part time), University of Tennessee Division of Zoology, Knoxville, Tennessee 1966-74.

Visiting Professor of Science (part time), Knoxville College, Knoxville, Tennessee 1971-72.

Professor, Memorial Research Center and Division of Medical Biology, University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee 1973-83.

Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville 1983-

MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Active, emeritus or past member of various biomedical and medical societies and associations including: American Medical Association, Tennessee Medical Association, Knoxville Academy of Medicine, American Society For Clinical Investigation, American Society For Investigative Pathology, FASEB, Society For Experimental Biology And Medicine, Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, American Association For The Advancement Of Science, Radiation Research Society, International Society For Experimental Hematology (Editor, Experimental Hematology-First Series 1957-1970), American Society Of Hematology, International Society Of Hematology, The Transplantation Society (Treasurer 1966-1971), American Association For Cancer Research, Environmental Mutagen Society, etc.;

Certification: American Board of Pathology (Pathologic Anatomy) 1952;

Board of Medical Examiners: State of Tennessee (Medical Doctor) (inactive).

Board of Registration in Medicine: State of Michigan (Physician and Surgeon) (inactive).

Division of Health and Mental Hygiene: State of Maryland (Physician and Surgeon) (inactive).

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Board of Directors, Gene Research Access Corporation, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, (Emeritus)

Board of Directors, Eastern Tennessee Alzheimer’s Association 2000-2001

Member, The Institute For The Study Of Human Knowledge, Los Altos, California

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS

About 150 scientific publications and reports from 1952 to 1996 in radiation and cancer research, bone marrow transplantation, experimental pathology, immunology and hematology.

1. Congdon, C.C, Benign and malignant chordomas: A clinico-anatomical study of twenty-two cases. American Journal of Pathology 28: 793-821, 1952.

2. Congdon, C.C, Uphoff, D. and Lorenz, E., Modification of acute irradiation injury in mice and guinea pigs by injection of bone marrow: A histopathologic study. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 13: 73-107, 1952.

3. Lorenz, E., Congdon, C.C, and Uphoff, D., Prevention of irradiation-induced lymphoid tumors in C57BL mice by spleen protection. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 14: 291-301, 1953.

4. Congdon, C. C and Lorenz, E., Humoral factor in irradiation protection: Modification of lethal irradiation injury in mice by injection of rat bone marrow. American Journal of Physiology 176: 297-300, 1954.

5. Hollcroft, J. W., Lorenz, E., Mathews, M. and Congdon, C.C, Long-term survival following x irradiation and the irradiation of the alpha particles from radon and its decay products. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 15: 1059-1069, 1955.

6. Congdon, C.C, McKinley Jr., T.W., Sutton, H., and Urso Jr., P., The effect of transfusions of blood showing extreme leukocytosis on survival of x-irradiated mice. Radiation Research 4: 424-434, 1956.

7. Congdon, C.C and Urso, I.S., Homologous bone marrow in the treatment of radiation injury in mice. American Journal of Pathology 33: 749-767, 1957.

8. Urso, P. and Congdon, C.C, The effect of the amount of isologous bone marrow injected on the recovery of hematopoietic organs, survival and body weight after lethal irradiation in mice. Blood 12: 251-260, 1957.

9. Smith, L. H., Makinodan, T. and Congdon, C.C, Circulating rat platelets in lethally x-radiated mice given rat bone marrow. Cancer Research 17: 367-369, 1957.

10. Swartz, E. E., Upton, A.C. and Congdon, C.C, A fatal reaction caused by implantation of adult parental spleen tissue in irradiated F1 mice. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 96: 797-800, 1957.

11. Congdon, C. C and Hollaender, A., Experimental applications of bone marrow transplantation. AMA Archives of Pathology 69: 605-612, 1960.

12. Vos, O., Goodman, J.W. and Congdon, C.C, Donor-type lymphatic tissue cells in lethally irradiated mice treated with homologous fetal liver. Transplantation Bulletin 7: 408-411, 1960.

13. Kretchmar, A. L and Congdon, C.C, Biochemical changes and increased liver weight in bone marrow chimeras. American Journal of Physiology 200: 102-106, 1961.

14. Congdon, C.C and Mori-Chavez, P. (editors), Control of Cell division and induction of cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute Monograph No. 14, 1964.

15. Gengozian, N., Rabette, B. and Congdon, C. C, Abnormal immune mechanism in allogenic radiation chimeras. Science: 149 645-647, 1965.

16. Thomas, D.B. and Congdon, C.C Secondary atrophy in the regenerating thymus of the irradiated mouse. Experimental Hematology (First Series) 11: 45-47, 1966.

17. Congdon, C. C and Doherty, D.G., Science based management for scientists. The Chemist 48: 299-302, 1971.

18. Congdon, C. C, Bone marrow transplantation. Science 171: 1116-1124, 1971.

19. Hoch-Ligeti, C., Congdon, C.C, Deringer, M.K. and Stewart, H.L., Adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder in guinea pigs. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 62: 381-386, 1979.

20. Congdon, C. C, Allebban, Z., Gibson, L.A., Kaplansky, A. , Strickland, K.M., Jago, T.L., Johnson, D.L., Lange, R.D. and Ichiki, A.T., Lymphatic tissue changes in rats flown on Spacelab Life Sciences-2. Journal of Applied Physiology 81(1): 172-177, 1996.

21. Congdon, C.C. Experimental Hematology and the River
Experimental Hematology 35(6): 858-9, June 2007.