Carol Remmer Angle
American pediatrician/nephrologist/toxicologist
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursShe also served as chief of pediatric nephrology, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical toxicology. In 1957, Angle along with Dr. Matilda McIntire, founded one of the country's first poison control centers. Angle is a founding member and a prior president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. For forty years, Angle served as an expert for NIEHS, National Institutes of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.
Education and training
Angle studied English literature at Wellesley College and graduated in 1948; she later attended Cornell Medical School, and took a residency at New York Hospital Pediatric. Afterward, she began working at the University of Nebraska Hospital.
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Offices held and honors
- Director, Medical Education, Children's Memorial Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska, 1954-1967
- Director, Nebraska Master Poison Control Center, 1957-1966
- State Coordinator, Nebraska Master Poison Control Center, 1957-1966
- Director, Pediatric Renal Clinic, University of Nebraska Hospital & Clinics, 1966-1984
- Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Nebraska Hospital, 1968-1974
- Program Chairman, American Association of Poison Control Centers, 1977-1979
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1971-1998
- Director, National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1974-1981
- Member, Toxicology Advisory Board, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1978-1982
- Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1981-1985
- Member, National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, NIH, 1984-1987
- Director, Clinical Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1985-1998
- Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 1989-2002
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1999–present
- Honor Award, Matthew J. Ellenhorn Award, 2003
- Honor Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center Legends Award, 2008 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine