received his name: Ewing sarcoma. In 1931 Ewing was formally appointed president of the hospital and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as "Cancer Man Ewing"; the accompanying article described his role as one of the most important cancer doctors of his era. He worked at Memorial Hospital until his retirement in 1939. Under his leadership, Memorial became a model for other cancer centers in the United States, combining patient care with clinical and laboratory research, and it was said of him that "The relationship of Ewing to the Memorial Hospital can best be expressed in the words of Emerson, 'Every institution is but the lengthening shadow of some man.' Dr. Ewing is the Memorial Hospital". In 1951, The James Ewing Hospital, a 12-story building on First Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets, opened; it was intended to treat cancer among New York City's poor. Bibliography A collection of his correspondence is held at the National Library of Medicine. Zantinga, AR; Coppes, MJ: James Ewing (1866-1943): "the chief". Medical and Pediatric Oncology, New York, 1993, 21 (7): 505-510. Huvos, AG: James Ewing: cancer man. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, April 1998, 2 (2): 146-148. Ewing, J: Clinical pathology of Blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and Special Applications of Hematology. Philadelphia and New York, 1901. Ewing, J: Neoplastic Diseases: A Textbook on Tumors. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, and London, 1919. Fourth edition 1940. Ewing, J: Causation, Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer. Baltimore, 1931. Ewing, J: Blood. Philadelphia. 1910. References 1866 births 1943 deaths American pathologists American oncologists Cancer researchers Cornell University faculty Scientists from Pittsburgh Deaths from bladder cancer Amherst College alumni Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni