Last modified: 11 May 2000
The Mount Sinai Hospital
and Mount Sinai School of
Medicine of The City University of New York
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1101
New York, New York 10029
(212) 241-7369, 369-6433, FAX 289-7738
Born: Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1920
Academic Degrees: B.S. (Anatomy) University of Chicago, 1941
M.S. (Pathology) Northwestern University, 1949
Medical Graduate: U of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1943
Internship: Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL Jan-Oct 1944
Residencies: Asst Resident, Medicine, Jackson Mem Hosp 10/44=7/45
Resident, Medicine, Woodlawn Hosp, Chicago, IL 1947
Fellow, Pathol., Cook County Hosp, Chicago, IL 1948
Service in Armed Forces: LT. (jg), 1945-46, LCDR 1953-5 USNR
Practice: Internal Medicine, 1949-53: 1955-58, Chicago
Liver Diseases, 1958-present, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Teaching Position: George Baehr Prof, Medicine, Emeritus,1992-
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY
Previous Teaching Positions: George Baehr Prof, Medicine, 1973-91
Professor of Medicine, 1968-1991
Professor of Pathology, 1966-1991
Acting Chairman, Dept Med, 1972-74
Assoc Prof, Medicine 1966-68
Assoc Prof, Pathology 1966
(all at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY)
Asst Prof, Pathology, 1963-5
Assoc, Medicine, 1959-62
(all at Columbia U, College of Physicians & Surgeons)
Instructor, Medicine, 1955-1958
Asst, Pathology, 1948-1953
(all at Northwestern U, School of Medicine)
Hospital Position: Consultant, Medicine 1992-
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Previous Hospital Positions:
Attending Physician, Medicine, 1968-1991
Chairman, Quality Utilization Assessment Review Committee 1977-91
Chief, Div Liver Diseases, 1968-1989
Acting Director, Dept Medicine, 1972-1974
Associate Attending Physician, 1966-1968
Assistant Attending Physician, 1959-1966
Research Assoc, Gastroenterol, 1958-1959
(all at The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York)
Consultant in Medicine (all until 1992)
Phelps Memorial Hospital, North Tarrytown, New York
Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown, New York
Englewood Hospital, Englewood, New Jersey
Consultant in Gastroenterology
East Orange VA Hospital, East Orange NJ, 1960-66
Associate Attending, Medicine
Cook County Hosp, Chicago, IL 1955-1958
Attending Physician & Co-Chairman, Dept Med
Woodlawn Hospital, Chicago, IL 1950-58
Diplomate American Boards: Internal Medicine, 1952, Recertified, 1977
Gastroenterology, 1959
Society Memberships: AAAS, Fellow N.Y. Academy of Sciences, Member:
American Association of Pathologists, American
Gastroenterological Association, American Assoc-
iation for the Study of Liver Diseases (Secretary
1959-1972; President, 1976-1977), International
Association for the Study of Liver (Councillor for
North America, 1974-1980), Harvey Society, FACP
(Governor, Downstate I - New York, 1978-1982)
Member Editorial Board: Gastroenterology 1964-1971
Medical Letter (now Contributing Ed)1966-date
Digestion 1968-1979
Medicine et Chirurgie Digestive 1971-1979
Hepatology 1980-1988
Seminars in Liver Diseases 1981-date
Member: Gastroenterology Panel NAS/NRO Drug Efficacy Study,
U.S. Pharmacopeia Scope Advisory Panel on Gastroenterol 1970-1975
Board of Directors, Medical Letter, Inc.
Board of Governors, American College of Physicians 1978-1982
Honors: Solomon A. Berson Award, Mount Sinai Department of Medicine 1978
Distinguished Service Award, Univ of Chicago Alumni Assn 1978
Jacobi Medallion, Mount Sinai AAS, 1992
Gabrilove Award for Signif Contrib to Med (Mount Sinai) 1993