Joel Mark Noe

Joel Noe (March 7, 1943 - September 13, 1991), MD, FACS, was a pioneering plastic surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts who founded one of the nation's first burn units and argon laser programs. He specialized in the laser removal of birthmarks.

Noe, a professor at Harvard Medical School, was editor of Aesthetic Surgery, the journal of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He was also a coeditor of Chronic Problem Wounds and Cutaneous Laser Therapy, which were both published in 1983. Following 1973, under the Interplast volunteer program, Noe performed corrective surgery on children in Latin America with birth defects such as cleft palates.

A native of Boston, Noe graduated from Marblehead High School in 1961, Harvard College in 1965, and Harvard Medical School in 1969.

In 1977, two years after joining the Beth Israel, Noe founded and directed the hospital's burn unit and argon laser program.^[1]

Wine-colored birthmarks known as capillary hemangiomas, which occur in about one out of 200 Americans, can be removed with a hand-held argon laser. Noe taught hundreds of physicians from around the world how to use the device.

Noe died of cancer on 13 September 1991. In his memory, a youth basketball league has been named in his family's hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts where he volunteered as a coach for the Brookline youth basketball league.

References

1. ^ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lsm.1900120317/pdf

• Boston Globe September 15, 1991 [1].

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Name	Noe, Joel Mark
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Date of birth	March 7, 1943
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Date of death	September 13, 1991
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