Stanley Schultz

{{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = October 26, 1931 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age |2014|10|23|1931|10|26}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Medicine, physiology | workplaces = University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = New York University School of Medicine <small>(M.D.)</small> | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Oral rehydration therapy research | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Stanley G. Schultz''' (October 26, 1931 – October 23, 2014) was an American physician and scientist whose work led to the development of oral rehydration therapy. He held the Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) before becoming the center's medical school dean.

==Biography== After growing up in New York City, Schultz completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and attended New York University School of Medicine.<ref name=APS/> After postgraduate work at Harvard Medical School and military service at the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Schultz took faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.<ref name=UTH/>

He joined the physiology faculty at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1979, and he held the school's Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling and the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences.<ref name="UTH"/><ref name="HCN">{{cite web|last1=McCorkle Stauss|first1=Marilyn|title=UT Medical School at Houston announces appointments|url=http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/west_university/news/ut-medical-school-at-houston-announces-appointments/article_2addd37e-c51c-588b-9f8b-639c52e60aa0.html|publisher=Houston Community Newspapers|accessdate=March 14, 2016|date=July 9, 2003}}</ref> He was named interim dean of the UT Houston Medical School in 2003, then served as dean in 2004 and 2005 before retiring for health reasons.<ref name="UTH">{{cite web|title=Stanley G. Schultz, whose rehydration research helped save millions, has died|url=https://www.uth.edu/media/story.htm?id=593e763e-6cb3-4129-b972-cf3bebb8b917|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314162750/https://www.uth.edu/media/story.htm?id=593e763e-6cb3-4129-b972-cf3bebb8b917|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 14, 2016|publisher=University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston|access-date=March 14, 2016|date=October 24, 2014}}</ref>

Schultz's scientific work studied ion transport in the small intestine, and some of his research findings led to the development of oral rehydration therapy.<ref name="JIM">{{cite journal|title=In Memoriam: Stanley G. Schultz|journal=Journal of Investigative Medicine|date=January 2015|volume=63|issue=1|page=11|doi=10.1097/JIM.0000000000000128|pmid=25667949|s2cid=205715592|url=http://jim.bmj.com/content/63/1/11|accessdate=March 14, 2016|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He was the 1992-93 president of the American Physiological Society.<ref name="APS">{{cite web|title=Stanley G. Schultz|url=http://www.the-aps.org/fm/presidents/introsgs.html|publisher=American Physiological Society|access-date=March 13, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314231630/http://www.the-aps.org/fm/presidents/introsgs.html|archive-date=March 14, 2016}}</ref> He received Thailand's Prince Mahidol Award in 2007.<ref name="Chron">{{cite web|last1=Ackerman|first1=Todd|title=Schultz, Houston dean who pioneered rehydration therapy, dies at 82|url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/passages/obituaries/article/Schultz-Houston-dean-who-pioneered-rehydration-5851540.php|publisher=Houston Chronicle|accessdate=March 14, 2016|date=October 27, 2014}}</ref> He was elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians and the European Academy of Sciences.<ref name="Obit">{{cite journal|last1=Frizzell|first1=Ray|last2=Byrne|first2=Jack|title=Obituary: Stanley G. Schultz (1931-2014)|journal=The Physiologist|date=January 2015|volume=58|issue=1|pages=40–41|pmid=25745689|url=http://www.the-aps.org/mm/Publications/Journals/Physiologist/Archive/2015-Issues/January-2015-Vol-58No-1/Membership/Obituary-Stanley-G-Schultz-1931-2014|accessdate=March 14, 2016}}</ref>

Schultz died of cancer in 2014 in Mountain View, California. He had moved to the area to be closer to his children and grandchildren.<ref name=UTH/>

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