Channing L. Ewing

CHANNING LESTER EWING, MD,  Captain, USN (Ret.) (Age 84)  
Born May 28, 1927, in Jefferson City, MO, and died September 27, 2011, in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Ewing is survived by his wife, Carol Littlejohn Ewing, daughter Russell Elliott Wiley, married to Russell B. Davis Jr., son Dr. Channing Lester Ewing, Jr., married to Diane B. Ewing, and their sons Channing Edward, Daniel Robert, and Gregory Joseph, and daughter Elizabeth Kerner Ewing, married to Dr. Steven Beard.Chan Ewing graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and received his MPH from Johns Hopkins University. During his Naval service, he went from Flight Surgeon to being the Deputy Director of Training at the Naval School of Aerospace Medicine and Research before becoming the founder and first chief of the Bioengineering Sciences Division, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute. In 1966, he originated the Joint Army-Navy project "Determination of Human Dynamic Response to Impact Acceleration". In 1971, he founded a laboratory at Michoud Station, New Orleans, LA, which grew into the Naval Biodynamics Laboratory. He retired as Scientific Director in 1985. The research that he and his team compiled has assisted in the design of helmets, such as the SPH-4, and other safety equipment, and is in use all over the world. In 1988, he became the Director of Research for the Snell Memorial Foundation, Inc., and remained active until 2010. In 1977, he won the Eric Liljencrantz Award. In 1996, he won the John Paul Stapp Awaard. He received the Navy Legion of Merit in 1976 and became a member of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in 1978. He was a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association Institute and the American College of Preventive Medicine. He served as Chairman of Committees for the American National Standards Institute and the American Technical Advisory Group of the International Standards Organization.Friends and relatives are invited to a burial service on Friday, March 2, at 2:30 p.m.at Arlington National Cemetery, with initial services at the Administration Building. The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to the Snell Safety Education Center, Inc., 3628 Madison Ave., Suite 11, N Highlands, CA 95660. Please contact Hong Zhang at (916)331-5073.