Dr. Dale Hammerschmidt has been on the Hematology/Oncology faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1975 and now serves as the Department of Medicine’s “coach” and due diligence officer for human research subjects’ protection. His clinical practice centers around hematologic malignancies, refractory auto-immunity and blood clotting disorders. He also has served as adjunct faculty in the Department of Rhetoric, in part due to his strong interest in the rhetoric of the consent interaction. Dr. Hammerschmidt received his undergraduate degree in Zoölogy from the U of M, went on to study German Literature and Political Science at the University of Vienna, and then returned to Minnesota to obtain his M.D. He has been involved in regulatory affairs and research ethics at Minnesota since he was first named to an IRB in 1976 (while still a trainee), and chaired IRBs for a decade. His interest in research ethics developed "in the trenches," dealing with the problems of consent in the face of devastating new diagnoses and dealing with the "therapeutic misconception" in early trials involving desperate patients. In addition to his work in research ethics, Dr. Hammerschmidt's scholarship has centered upon the tension among privacy statutes, patient expectations, ethical norms and researchers' interests. He served two terms as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine and two as Midwest Councilor for the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA). He has also received the Watson Award and the Medal of the Portuguese Society for Intensive Care Medicine and has been named to fellowship in the American College of Physicians. In 2005 he received the Special Service Award of ARENA for his work in ethics education, and he has been named the 2006 recipient of the Swanberg Award of the American Medical Writers’ Association for work on peer review and publication fraud.
Selected Publications
Stroncek DF, Vercellotti GM, Hammerschmidt DE, Christie DJ, Shankar RA, Jacob HS. Characterization of multiple quinine-dependent antibodies in a patient with episodic hemolytic-uremic syndrome and immune agranulocytosis. Blood 1992; 80(1): 241-248.
Hammerschmidt DE. "This Month in Lab Clin Med" (monthly feature, reviewing the most important papers each month in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine.) J Lab Clin Med May, 1992 to date.
Hammerschmidt, DE and Gross, AG. The problem of biomedical fraud: A model for retrospective and prospective action. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 1995; 27(1): 3-11.
Hammerschmidt, DE. There is no substantive due-process right to conduct human subjects research. IRB 1997; XX: 12-16.
Hammerschmidt, DE. Consultative Hematology, Laboratory Hematology and Myeloid Cells and Disorders. In: MKSAP Hematology-II . American College of Physicians: Philadelphia, 1998.
Hammerschmidt, DE. It's as simple as Black and White! racial and ethnic descriptors as categorical variables in science. J Lab Clin Med 1999; 133: 10-12.
Hammerschmidt DE. Ethical and practical problems in studying prayer. Arch Intern Med 2000; 160: 1874.
Roy V, Hammerschmidt DE. Disseminated histoplasmosis following prolonged low-dose methotrexate therapy. Am J Hematol; 2000: 63:59-60.
Hammerschmidt DE. Annulus senilis. J Lab Clin Med 2001; 138:404.
Hammerschmidt DE. James Herrick and the description of sickle cell disease. J Lab Clin Med 2002; 139:126.
Brunstein CG, Hirsch BA, Hammerschmidt D, McGlennen RC, Nguyen PL, Verfaillie CM. Leukemia in donor cells after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Bone Marrow Transplant 2002; 29:999-1003.
Hammerschmidt DE. A pile of rocks. J Lab Clin Med 2002; 140:419.
Hammerschmidt DE. Ovine surgery. J Lab Clin Med 2003; 141:150-151.
Hammerschmidt DE. Nobel prize winner trading card (CIRCA 1952). Elie Metchnikoff. J Lab Clin Med 2003; 141: 229-230.
Hammerschmidt DE. Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas. J Lab Clin Med 2003; 141:283.
Hammerschmidt DE. Bovine tuberculosis: Still a world health problem. J Lab Clin Med 2003; 141:359-360.
Hammerschmidt DE. The lighthouse at Coxsackie, New York. J Lab Clin Med 2003; 142:205.
Hammerschmidt DE. Hands: The last great smallpox outbreak in Minnesota (1924-25). J Lab Clin Med 2003; 142:278.
Hammerschmidt DE. 250 years of controlled clinical trials: Where it all began. J Lab Clin Med 2004; 143:68069.
Hammerschmidt DE. Lobar pneumonia. J Lab Clin Med 2004; 143:327.
Emanuel EJ, Wood A, Fleischman A, Bowen A, Getz KA, Grady C, Levine C, Hammerschmidt DE, Faden R, Eckenwiler L, Muse CT, Sugarman J. Oversight of human participants research: Identifying problems to evaluate reform proposals. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141:282-291.
Hammerschmidt DE. Recruiting for a clinical study (disparities in health care and research). J Lab Clin Med 2004; 144:167-168.
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