Papers of Gennaro M. Tisi, noted clinical and research specialist in the area of pulmonary medicine and a founding member of the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. Author of over 100 original articles, chapters, and abstracts, Tisi's research interests included the staging of lung cancer, medical-pulmonary education, pulmonary physiology and mechanics, and clinical research in pulmonary disease. Arranged into six series, the collection contains research notes, correspondence, manuscripts, administrative memos, committee agendas and minutes, and photographs documenting Tisi's professional life from 1964 to his death in 1988.
Gennaro Tisi Papers, 1964 - 1989 (MSS 153)
Extent: 23.2 Linear feet (58 archives boxes)
Gennaro Michael Tisi (September 26, 1935 - February 18, 1988), was a pulmonary specialist, both as a clinician and teacher. He earned a B.S. in chemistry, biology, and philosophy from Fordham University in 1956 and a M.D. from Georgetown University Medical School in 1960. He was a founding member of UCSD's medical school, where he worked from 1968 until his death in 1988 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 52.
Tisi was appointed to UCSD's medical faculty following eight years of post-graduate training with the U.S. Navy, Georgetown University Hospital, and University of California, San Francisco. At UCSD he was a professor of medicine as well as the Director of the Pulmonary Physiology Laboratory at UCSD's University Hospital. In addition, he was a consultant in pulmonary disease at various U.S. Navy hospitals. Tisi was a chief of the Pulmonary Section of the San Diego Veteran Hospital and, later, Director of Clinical and Education Services in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division of the UCSD Medical Center.
His book Pulmonary Physiology in Clinical Medicine (1980) was considered by some to be a standard text in the field. A second edition was published in 1983. He co-edited Clinical Topics in Internal Medicine (1982) and co-authored Neoplasms of the Lung (1975-1976).
Tisi's professional activities included his role as president of the California Chapter of the American College of Chest Physicians (1979-1980) and service on committees of the American Thoracic Society. He was on the editorial boards of the journals Pulmonary Perspectives of the American College of Chest Physicians, Respiratory Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment, and Chest, Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. Among his honors, Tisi was voted by UCSD medical students to be the recipient of the UCSD/Kaiser Excellence in Teaching Award three times.
Correspondence, photographs, research notes, original manuscripts, reprints, calculations, and editorial works documenting Tisi's career as a pulmonary specialist and academic from 1965-1988. The collection is arranged in six series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 2) RESEARCH, 3) SUBJECT FILES, 4) UCSD TEACHING MATERIALS, 5) ORGANIZATIONS and 6) CORRESPONDENCE.