William C. Stadie

Who was William C. Stadie?

William Christopher Stadie was a researcher, a Diabetes specialist. He was John Herr Musser Emeritus Professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as an editor of the Diabetes, the journal of the American Diabetes Association. Other distinctions included: honorary degree of the University of Pennsylvania, the Phillips Medal of the American College of Physicians, the Kober Medal for 1955 from the Association of American Physicians and the Banting Medal of the American Diabetes Association. During the famous 1918 influenza epidemic Stadie invented oxygen therapy for treatment of cyanosis, a condition resulting from pneumonia.