Jerome Sutin obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. After doing postdoctoral training in the Department of Anatomy at the University of California Medical Center in Los Angeles and at the University College, London, he moved to Yale University, where he was appointed an Instructor in Anatomy. He progressed through the academic ranks at Yale, becoming an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor, before accepting the Chair of the Department of Anatomy at Emory University in Atlanta in 1966, at the relatively young age of thirty-six. During his more than thirty years as Chairman, Dr. Sutin led the development of the department into one of the strongest of its type in the country.
Jerry Sutin has made significant contributions to our understanding of many parts of the brain, ranging from the hypothalamus to the cerebral cortex and has used techniques as varied as electrophysiology to fiber degeneration and pathway tracing. Perhaps it was because of this wide interest in many parts of the nervous system that he joined Malcolm Carpenter in writing the 8th Edition of Human Neuroanatomy. It is also his wide knowlege of the nervous system that led to Jerry's being asked to serve on the Editorial Boards of such diverse journals as the Journal of Comparative Neurology, Neurology, Brain Research Bulletin, Experimental Neurology and Psychoneuroendocrinology, and to be asked to serve on numerous NIH panels.
In addition to contributions to Emory University that are simply too numerous to list here, Jerry served as Second Vice-President, First Vice-President, and President of the American Associateion of Anatomists, President of the Cajal Club of that Association, and President of the Association of Anatomy Chairman. In 1994, he was awarded the highest honor of the American Association of Anatomists, the Henry Gray Award.
As a bench scientist, faculty member, Chairman, friend, and colleague Jerry Sutin acted with great distinction. It is our honor for the Department of Cell Biology to continue this lectureship in his name.
