Anne Pomeroy Autor
{{Short description|Canadian scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Anne Pomeroy Autor
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|01|26}}
| birth_place = Prince George, British Columbia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|11|13|1935|01|26}}
| workplaces = University of British Columbia
University of Iowa
Al Ain University
Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi
| alma_mater = Duke University
University of British Columbia
Victoria High School
| thesis_title = Studies in the mechanism of action of streptomycin
| thesis_url = https://worldcat.org/en/title/606288208
| thesis_year = 1957
}}
Anne Pomeroy Autor (January 26, 1935 – November 13, 2018) was a Canadian scientist who was a professor of biochemistry at the University of British Columbia. She worked closely with policy makers to inform public health campaigns and was committed to improving access to medical education.
Early life and education
Autor was born in Prince George, British Columbia. Her father was with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Her mother was a school teacher and her family were pioneers in Vancouver.{{Cite web |title=Anne AUTOR – VHS Class of 1952 |url=http://vichigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AUTOR-Anne-1952.pdf}} Autor attended Victoria High School. At the age of thirteen, she decided to become a scientist, later studying science at the University of Victoria. She moved to the University of British Columbia for undergraduate studies, where she majored in biochemistry. She eventually moved to Duke University for her doctorate, where she studied the molecular mechanisms that underpin the actions of streptomycin.{{Cite web |last=Autor |first=Dorothy Anne Pomeroy |date=1957 |title=Studies in the mechanism of action of streptomycin |url=https://worldcat.org/en/title/606288208}} Autor was a postdoctoral student at the University of Michigan. Her early research considered how oxygen can damage the lungs of premature babies.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQriAAAAMAAJ |title=The Michigan Alumnus |date=1992 |publisher=Alumni Association of the University of Michigan |pages=42 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mR0gAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22anne+autor%22+iowa&pg=PP92 |title=NIH Research Advances|year=1976 }} Autor was the only woman in her undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral courses.
Research and career
Autor started her academic career at the University of Iowa in 1972. She was the first woman lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, and developed a faculty network to support women academics.{{Cite web |date=January 17, 1975 |title=Postscript |url=https://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1975/di1975-01-17.pdf |website=The Daily Iowan}} In 1983, she left Iowa and returned to the University of British Columbia,{{Cite web |title=Archive for 2018 |url=https://ceremonies.ubc.ca/2018/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=ceremonies.ubc.ca}} where she worked alongside the hospital research groups and established a forensic pathology laboratory, and developed investigations into infant mortality.
Autor's research considered biochemistry and toxicology. She studied heavy metal toxicity in the environment, and developed an accredited programme on toxicology in the University of British Columbia.{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Kelly |date=April 27, 1978 |title=Paraquat: Marijuana moratorium suggested |url=https://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1978/di1978-04-27.pdf |website=The Daily Iowan}} She acted as an advisor for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where she aided the government on the management of toxic substances.
In 2000, Autor retired from the University of British Columbia.{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=UBC EMERITUS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER |url=https://emerituscollege.ubc.ca/sites/emerituscollege.ubc.ca/files/documents/NewsJan2019.pdf}} She served as an adjunct professor in the Al Ain University, and eventually made Professor and Vice Chair in Biomdeical Sciences at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi where she developed a medical education programme that included the humanities alongside technical scientific content.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
Personal life
Autor had two sons, both of whom became attorneys. In 1998, Autor and Beverley McLachlin were the first women to serve on the Vancouver Round Table.{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=THE LAW SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 2009 ANNUAL REVIEW |url=https://www.lawsociety.bc.ca/Website/media/Shared/docs/publications/ar/2009-annualreview.pdf}}
Autor died on November 13, 2018, from complications caused by Alzheimer's disease.{{Cite web |last=Colpron |first=Kristy |title=Dr. Anne Pomeroy Autor |url=https://www.uvic.ca/givingtouvic/ways/legacy/behindstory/autor.php}}{{Cite web |title=Remembering the life of Anne AUTOR 1935 - 2018 |url=https://vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca/obituary/anne-autor-1071324813/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=vancouversunandprovince.remembering.ca |language=en}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite Q|Q69804909}}
- {{Cite Q|Q69472752}}
- {{Cite Q|Q54557561}}
- {Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8865397
|title=Pathology of oxygen |date=1982 |publisher=Academic Press |others=Anne Pomeroy Autor |isbn=0-12-068620-1 |location=New York |oclc=8865397}}
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