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In Memoriam
Henrik H. Bendixen, former v.p. of Columbia’s
medical, dental, nursing and public health schools, died on April
4 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 80.
Bendixen was born in 1923 in Fredriksberg, Denmark, and studied
medicine at the University of Copenhagen. He served an anesthesia
residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and joined the faculty
of Harvard Medical School in 1957. After four years at UC San Diego,
Bendixen joined the P&S faculty in 1973 as professor and chairman
of anesthesiology and director of the anesthesiology service at
Presbyterian Hospital.
In 1980, Bendixen served for nine months as acting provost and
v.p. for the health sciences, returning to the faculty in 1984 as
Alumni Professor. He later was named the E.M. Papper [’35]
Professor of Anesthesiology. Bendixen was v.p. for health sciences
and dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1984–89.
When he stepped down, he became senior associate v.p. for health
sciences and senior associate dean of the Faculty of Medicine until
his retirement in 1994, when he was named professor emeritus of
anesthesiology.
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