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About John R. Heller Jr.
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- John Roderick 'Rod' Heller (born February 27, 1905, Fair Play, S.C., died May 4, 1989, Bethesda, Md., age 84), was the head in 1943-1948 of what was then called the "Venereal Disease" section of the United States Public Health Service (PHS).
- He then became the director of the National Cancer Institute, and then president/chief executive officer of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
- He is best known for having been the assistant in charge of on-site medical operations in the Tuskegee syphilis study, a longitudinal clinical examination by PHS of untreated syphilis in U.S.
- African-American males.
- Very serious questions of medical ethics have been raised about this study and those involved in it.
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