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Joseph Stokes III; Heart Disease Investigator

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Joseph Stokes III, 64, one of the principal investigators of the world’s longest-running heart study and the first dean of the medical school at UC San Diego. A cardiologist and epidemiologist, Stokes was an investigator for the renowned Framingham Heart Study which began in 1948 with 5,209 residents of the central Massachusetts city of Framingham. The project monitors patterns, causes and inhibitors of cardiovascular disease and remains the world’s longest running project of its kind. Stokes joined the study in 1951 as a U.S. Public Health Service physician. He had been editor of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine since 1986 and a former associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Stokes recently received an award from the American College of Preventive Medicine. A 1949 Harvard Medical School graduate, Stokes was professor of medicine and public health at Boston University Medical School and a member of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at University Hospital’s Evans Department of Clinical Research. Stokes became the first dean of the medical school of UC San Diego in 1964 and was affiliated with that school in several positions for 18 years. In Boston on Monday of cancer.

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