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     LEO RICEN, M. D.  One of the most conspicuous figures in the medical 
circles of the Columbia River valley is Dr. Leo Ricen, of Portland, whose 
learning and attainments have gained for him marked prestige among his, 
professional colleagues, while his success as a practitioner testifies to his 
skill and ability. Dr. Ricen was born in Odessa, Russia, and is a son of Moses 
and Z. (Swett) Ricen. He received his early education in the public schools, 
after which he was graduated from the Second Classical Gymnasium in Odessa, 
and, later, graduated from the Imperial University, at Kazan, Russia, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Science. Coming to Portland, he entered the medical 
school of the University of Oregon, from which he received his professional 
degree. Later he worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and took 
postgraduate work in that city and Vienna, after which he entered upon the 
practice of his profession in Portland, in which he has continued to the 
present time, building up a large and remunerative practice. He served as 
instructor in internal medicine in the medical school of the University of 
Oregon from 1917 to 1922, and has been a member of the attending medical staff 
of Emmanuel Hospital since 1917, serving as president of the staff in 1923. In 
his spare time he has been doing medical research work and he has been a 
valued contributor to medical literature. He was the first physician in the 
state of Oregon to use insulin in the treatment of diabetes, and on October 6, 
1920, was the first in the state of Oregon to effect non-surgical drainage of 
the gall bladder, being also the first to demonstrate this procedure at a 
meeting of the alumni of the University of Oregon medical school. He was the 
first to point out the importance of sideration of the human types in rational 
treatment of disease, and lectured on this subject for four years, as 
assistant to Professor DeBusk, of the University of Oregon. The Doctor is a 
member of the Multnomah City and County Medical Society, the Oregon State 
Medical Society, a Fellow of the American Medical Association, an associate 
Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the Northwest 
Medical Society. He was lecturer on Russian literature in the extension course 
of the University of Oregon in 1918, his addresses being heard with the 
greatest interest, and he has been judge of prizes for the American Chemical 
Society for the last eight years. He was president of Theo Herzl Lodge, No. 
365, I. O. B. B.

     On December 20, 1907, in Portland, Dr. Ricen was united in marriage to 
Miss Pauline Rosenthal. He is closely devoted to his life work, is a constant 
student of his profession, and all who know him entertain for him the highest 
feelings of respect for his professional ability, his sterling personal 
qualities and his kindly and unaffected manner. He has a hobby of drawing and 
is fond of fine literature and being a linguist, speaking and reading five 
languages, he enjoys reading in the original besides the English classics, the 
best German, French, Italian and Russian literature.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 903-904

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