Warren M ZapolWarren M. Zapol, MD (1942 - 2021) was Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital, a founder of the MGH Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research, Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and a faculty member o the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. An exceptional scientist, mentor, doctor and engineer, Dr. Zapol was an inventor of the therapeutic use of inhaled nitric oxide, which has been administered to hundreds of thousands of patients, and is a live-saving world-wide standard of care for "blue babies." Dr. Zapol's research and medical missions spanned the globe. He led nine Antarctic expeditions to study how Weddell seals hold their breath and avoid the bends. In 2008, he was appointed by President George W. Bush and reappointed in 2012 by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. He also served on the Polar Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences. He was a member of the National Academy of Medicine and in 2003 was awarded the Inventor of the Year Award of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. The Zapol Glacier, named after him, flows from the largest mountain in Antarctica. Read More Read Less