Ocala Mike
10-14-2014, 12:38 PM
Honored to have played on the baseball team with this distinguished doctor, whose research is the reason we all take low-dose aspirin every day:
The 2014 Queens College Hall of Fame Dinner and Golf Classic is rapidly approaching on October 16...Here is a bio of 2014 Hall of Fame inductee, Charles Hennekens. In 1962-63, Hennekens served as team captain, and was high scorer and most valuable player, winning the Regan-Stein Award in basketball. He was also a co-captain in baseball and received the LI Press Athlete-Scholar Award as a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate. In the 1961-62 basketball season, he led the team in assists and was second in scoring to Queens College Hall of Famer, Geoffrey Maloney, and played centerfielder and catcher on the diamond. An all-around athlete, Hennekens earned #4 ranking in the US in 1982 for men’s squash singles and was #5 in doubles.
Hennekens was selected as one of the top 100 graduates in Queens College history alongside names like Paul Simon, Jerry Seinfeld, and Marvin Hamlisch. He is the first and only inductee in both the Achievement and Athletic Halls of Fame in the history of Queens College. Currently, he is the first Sir Richard Doll Professor and Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. As the first John Snow Professor and first Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine and first Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he first discovered (in 1988) that aspirin prevents a heart attack and saves lives when given during and after a heart attack. From 1995 to 2005, Science Watch ranked Hennekens as the third most widely cited medical researcher in the world and five of the top 20 honorees were his former trainees and/or fellows. In 2012, Science Heroes placed Hennekens 81st in the history of the medical world for having saved more than 1.1 million lives. In 2014 he received the Ochsner Award for his seminal work on cigarette smoking and health.
Congratulations, Dr. Hennekens!
The 2014 Queens College Hall of Fame Dinner and Golf Classic is rapidly approaching on October 16...Here is a bio of 2014 Hall of Fame inductee, Charles Hennekens. In 1962-63, Hennekens served as team captain, and was high scorer and most valuable player, winning the Regan-Stein Award in basketball. He was also a co-captain in baseball and received the LI Press Athlete-Scholar Award as a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate. In the 1961-62 basketball season, he led the team in assists and was second in scoring to Queens College Hall of Famer, Geoffrey Maloney, and played centerfielder and catcher on the diamond. An all-around athlete, Hennekens earned #4 ranking in the US in 1982 for men’s squash singles and was #5 in doubles.
Hennekens was selected as one of the top 100 graduates in Queens College history alongside names like Paul Simon, Jerry Seinfeld, and Marvin Hamlisch. He is the first and only inductee in both the Achievement and Athletic Halls of Fame in the history of Queens College. Currently, he is the first Sir Richard Doll Professor and Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University. As the first John Snow Professor and first Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine and first Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he first discovered (in 1988) that aspirin prevents a heart attack and saves lives when given during and after a heart attack. From 1995 to 2005, Science Watch ranked Hennekens as the third most widely cited medical researcher in the world and five of the top 20 honorees were his former trainees and/or fellows. In 2012, Science Heroes placed Hennekens 81st in the history of the medical world for having saved more than 1.1 million lives. In 2014 he received the Ochsner Award for his seminal work on cigarette smoking and health.
Congratulations, Dr. Hennekens!