With great sadness, the anti-doping community learned of the passing of Don Hardt Catlin, a medical doctor and professor emeritus of molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA, who died on January 16, 2024, at the age of 85 at his Los Angeles, California, home after a long battle with health issues.

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Born June 4, 1938, in New Haven, Connecticut, he received his bachelor's degree in statistics and psychology from Yale University in 1960 and his MD from the University of Rochester in 1965. He began his career as a specialist in internal medicine for the US Army serving at Walter Reed Army Medical Center attaining the rank of Major. He went on to become Chief Resident at UCLA School of Medicine in 1969 and joined the faculty in 1972, which made him part of the UCLA community for nearly 5 decades.

Dr. Catlin was the founder of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory in 1982, the first sports anti-doping laboratory in the United States and the 4th in the world, where he served as its director for 25 years. Through this time, he grew the lab into one of the world's largest and most respected sports drug testing facilities. He oversaw drug testing at multiple Olympic Games (Los Angeles 1984, Atlanta 1996, and Salt Lake City 2002) and helped create many of the leading anti-doping programs in the world.

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During his outstanding career, Dr. Catlin also became one of the longest serving members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission with more than 2 decades of service. His work and accomplishments were manifold, and the mentioning of his essential contributions in, for example, uncovering and exposing the BALCO scandal or in identifying for the first time the misuse of a novel erythropoiesis-stimulating protein at the XIX Olympic Winter Games 2002 in Salt Lake City can only be seen as prominent examples of countless successes.

Dr. Catlin was a pioneer, a leader, and an educator, who managed to transfer his professional legacy into the hands of excellent successors. But nonetheless are his presence, advice, and personality greatly missed.

Cologne, February 16, 2024

反兴奋剂界非常悲伤地获悉加州大学洛杉矶分校医学博士兼分子和医学药理学名誉教授唐·哈特·卡特林 (Don Hardt Catlin) 去世的消息，他于 2024 年 1 月 16 日在洛杉矶的家中去世，享年 85 岁。加利福尼亚州，在与健康问题进行长期斗争后的家。

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1938 年 6 月 4 日出生于康涅狄格州纽黑文市，1960 年获得耶鲁大学统计和心理学学士学位，1965 年获得罗切斯特大学医学博士学位。他的职业生涯始于美国内科专家在沃尔特·里德陆军医疗中心服役并获得少校军衔的陆军。1969 年，他成为加州大学洛杉矶分校医学院的首席住院医师，并于 1972 年加入该学院，这使他成为加州大学洛杉矶分校社区的一员近 5 年。

卡特林博士于1982年创立了加州大学洛杉矶分校奥林匹克分析实验室，这是美国第一个、世界上第4个运动反兴奋剂实验室，并担任实验室主任25年。在此期间，他将实验室发展成为世界上最大、最受尊敬的运动药物测试设施之一。他监督了多届奥运会（1984 年洛杉矶奥运会、1996 年亚特兰大奥运会和 2002 年盐湖城奥运会）的药检工作，并帮助制定了许多世界领先的反兴奋剂计划。

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在其杰出的职业生涯中，卡特林医生还成为国际奥委会（IOC）医学委员会任职时间最长的成员之一，服务时间超过20年。他的工作和成就是多方面的，并提到了他的重要贡献，例如，揭露和揭露 BALCO 丑闻，或在 2002 年盐湖城第十九届冬季奥运会上首次发现一种新型促红细胞生成蛋白的滥用湖城只能被视为无数成功的突出例子。

卡特林博士是一位先驱、领导者和教育家，他成功地将自己的职业遗产转移到了优秀的继任者手中。但尽管如此，人们还是非常怀念他的存在、建议和个性。

科隆，2024 年 2 月 16 日