| Biography | | Neelans: Hale also held a Phd. He served during WWII in the US Navy. Hale was a neurologist and worked at The Mason Clinic in Seattle, WA. He was a founder of the AANEM in the early 1950's. Published in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine he discussed the Scalenus Anticus Syndrome, now called Haven's Syndrome.
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Society of Neurological Surgeons:
Deceased Member
Hale A. Haven, MD
Hale A. Haven, MD
Council: 1962-1963
1902-1964
HALE AURAND HAVEN was born in Waterloo, Iowa on August 31, 1902. He entered Cornell College in Iowa in 1919. He left Cornell and moved to Chicago, where his friend, DeWalt Payne, a medical student at Northwestern, persuaded him to try medical school, which he did enthusiastically.
While a junior in medical school, he married Mildred Snapp, who was doing special duty nursing. Together they ran a small industrial hospital for Dr. Leroy Kuhn, with Hale the house physician, and Mildred the nursing supervisor, nurse, x-ray technician and anesthetist.
Hale Haven interned at Wesley Memorial Hospital, where, under Dr. Allen B. Kanavel, he became interested in neurosurgery. After his internship, his training in neurosurgery began with Dr. Loyal Davis. He published two extremely carefully thought-out papers on the introduction of foreign material into the spinal canal. Later in his residency (1933), he was awarded a Ph.D. degree on the basis of his studies of the cellular origin of gliomas.
In 1934, Hale instituted the Neurosurgical Division of the Department of Surgery at the Mason Clinic in Seattle. There he developed a reputation that was to persist throughout the rest of his life, gaining for him the profound respect of patients and colleagues alike. His curiosity embraced many facets of neurosurgery, notably trigeminal neuralgia, causalgia, and angina pectoris. In 1939, he studied the relationship between the scalenus anticus syndrome and the anomalous first rib, and was the first to postulate compression of the subclavian artery, rather than the brachial plexus, by the scalenus muscles - Haven’s Syndrome.
He began active duty in the Navy in November, 1942, stationed first in Seattle, and then at the Oakland Naval Hospital. He was discharged with the rank of Commander in 1946. He returned to the Mason Clinic where, over the years, he took an active part in the teaching program of the University of Washington Medical School as a Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery. He also attended at King County Hospital and Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, giving much of his time to these two institutions.
He was a member of a number of neurosurgical societies, and served as President of the North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry in 1942; Vice President of the Harvey Cushing Society in 1948; President of the Western Society of Electroencephalography in 1949; and President of the Western Neurosurgical Society in 1963.
On March 25, 1964, Hale A. Haven died of carcinoma of the pancreas. An honest, kind, and sensitive man, he left behind good friends from all over the country who remember him with love and esteem.3 |
Hale Aurand Haven M.D., Ph.D.1,2