Martin Nemiroff, '58
Senior Flight Surgeon,
Senior Medical Officer,
U.S. Coast Guard Command,
Alameda, California.Captain Nemiroff received his M.D. at the University of Michigan. Further training led to subspecialties in Pulmonary Internal Medicine and Undersea Medicine, with research interests in cold water near-drowning and hypothermia.
After a medical school teaching career of ten years Dr. Nemiroff entered the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980 when he was assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard as a Flight Surgeon in Kodiak, Alaska. He has also served in Traverse City, Michigan, and Petaluma and Alameda, California. He has retired as Senior Flight Surgeon and Senior Medical Officer at the U.S. Coast Guard Command in Alameda.
During his Coast Guard career Captain Nemiroff participated in rescues of over 1,500 persons in the North Pacific, North Atlantic and Great Lakes Regions of the United States. As an active member of Coast Guard rescue units he has been lowered from helicopters and has resuscitated dangerously-cold-water immersion victims many times.
Most notably, Dr. Nemiroff has participated in over 2,500 drowning and near drowning rescues to date and has achieved complete recovery of some 50 long-submersion cold-water victims. Over forty publications, numerous teaching films, chapters and books have resulted from this work. His most recent research was on recovery and resuscitation of Golden Gate Bridge jumpers in San Francisco, California.
The U.S. Coast Guard Medical Clinic in North Bend, Oregon was named in his honor in August, 1997.
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