Carol Remmer Angle

Carol Remmer Angle is an American pediatrician, nephrologist, and toxicologist. Angle is known as one of the nation's leading researchers on lead poisoning. She is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Angle joined UNMC in 1954 and was one of the first women to serve as chair of an academic medical department. She also served as chief of pediatric nephrology, director of the pediatric intensive care unit, and director of medical toxicology. In 1957, Angle along with Dr. Matilda McIntire, founded one of the country's first poison control centers. Angle is a founding member and a prior president of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. For forty years, Angle served as an expert for NIEHS, National Institutes of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency panels investigating heavy metal toxicity. Angle continues as a toxicology consultant, reviewer and editor.

Education and training

Angle studied English literature at Wellesley College and graduated in 1948; she later attended Cornell Medical School, and took a residency at New York Hospital Pediatric. Afterward, she began working at the .

Director, Medical Education,, Omaha, Nebraska, 1954-1967
Director,, 1957-1966
State Coordinator, Nebraska Master Poison Control Center, 1957-1966
Director, Pediatric Renal Clinic, University of Nebraska Hospital & Clinics, 1966-1984
Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University of Nebraska Hospital, 1968-1974
Program Chairman, American Association of Poison Control Centers, 1977-1979
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1971-1998
Director, National Foundation Birth Defects Treatment Center, Children's Memorial Hospital, 1974-1981
Member, Toxicology Advisory Board, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1978-1982
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1981-1985
Member,, NIH, 1984-1987
Director, Clinical Toxicology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 1985-1998
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 1989-2002
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, 1999–present
Honor Award,, 2003
Honor Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center Legends Award, 2008

Angle CR, Swanson SA: Arsenite enhances homocysteine-induced proliferation of fibroblasts in human aortic smooth muscle cells in B12 deficient media. Submitted to Environmental Health Perspectives, July 1997.