Dr. James B. Campbell, a neuro-surgeon who pioneered in nerve and spinal cord repair, died Friday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 73 years old and lived in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Dr. Campbell was research professor of neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center from 1967 until 1974, when he was named attending physician at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign@Urbana. He retired in 1977.
In 1963, Dr. Campbell performed the first successful transplant of nerve sections in humans. Restoration of nerve function, muscular activity and sensation was achieved by grafts of nerves up to 5 1/2 inches long from cadavers.
Dr. Campbell, who presented the findings to the Harvey Cushing Society in Philadelphia, was associate professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. Medical Center at that time. His research collaborator was Dr. C. Andrew Bassett of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Campbell was also director of the I.C.D. Research Laboratories, a venture by the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and the N.Y.U. Medical Center that was established in June 1967.
He was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. Declining a Rhodes Scholarship, he joined the Army during World War II and commanded a mobile medical unit in the Philippines and New Guinea.
The author of more than 100 papers on his specialty, Dr. Campbell was a corresponding member of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He is survived by his wife, Joan.
Dr. Campbell was research professor of neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center from 1967 until 1974, when he was named attending physician at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign@Urbana. He retired in 1977.
In 1963, Dr. Campbell performed the first successful transplant of nerve sections in humans. Restoration of nerve function, muscular activity and sensation was achieved by grafts of nerves up to 5 1/2 inches long from cadavers.
Dr. Campbell, who presented the findings to the Harvey Cushing Society in Philadelphia, was associate professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. Medical Center at that time. His research collaborator was Dr. C. Andrew Bassett of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Campbell was also director of the I.C.D. Research Laboratories, a venture by the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and the N.Y.U. Medical Center that was established in June 1967.
He was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. Declining a Rhodes Scholarship, he joined the Army during World War II and commanded a mobile medical unit in the Philippines and New Guinea.
The author of more than 100 papers on his specialty, Dr. Campbell was a corresponding member of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He is survived by his wife, Joan.
Dr. James B. Campbell, a neuro-surgeon who pioneered in nerve and spinal cord repair, died Friday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 73 years old and lived in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Dr. Campbell was research professor of neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center from 1967 until 1974, when he was named attending physician at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign@Urbana. He retired in 1977.
In 1963, Dr. Campbell performed the first successful transplant of nerve sections in humans. Restoration of nerve function, muscular activity and sensation was achieved by grafts of nerves up to 5 1/2 inches long from cadavers.
Dr. Campbell, who presented the findings to the Harvey Cushing Society in Philadelphia, was associate professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. Medical Center at that time. His research collaborator was Dr. C. Andrew Bassett of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Campbell was also director of the I.C.D. Research Laboratories, a venture by the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and the N.Y.U. Medical Center that was established in June 1967.
He was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. Declining a Rhodes Scholarship, he joined the Army during World War II and commanded a mobile medical unit in the Philippines and New Guinea.
The author of more than 100 papers on his specialty, Dr. Campbell was a corresponding member of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He is survived by his wife, Joan.
Dr. Campbell was research professor of neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center from 1967 until 1974, when he was named attending physician at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Education at the University of Illinois at Champaign@Urbana. He retired in 1977.
In 1963, Dr. Campbell performed the first successful transplant of nerve sections in humans. Restoration of nerve function, muscular activity and sensation was achieved by grafts of nerves up to 5 1/2 inches long from cadavers.
Dr. Campbell, who presented the findings to the Harvey Cushing Society in Philadelphia, was associate professor of neurology at the N.Y.U. Medical Center at that time. His research collaborator was Dr. C. Andrew Bassett of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Campbell was also director of the I.C.D. Research Laboratories, a venture by the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled and the N.Y.U. Medical Center that was established in June 1967.
He was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School. Declining a Rhodes Scholarship, he joined the Army during World War II and commanded a mobile medical unit in the Philippines and New Guinea.
The author of more than 100 papers on his specialty, Dr. Campbell was a corresponding member of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He is survived by his wife, Joan.
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