Background
Heller, Paul was born on August 8, 1914 in Komotau, Czechoslovakia. Son of Alfred and Elsa (Hoenig) Heller. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1948.
Heller, Paul was born on August 8, 1914 in Komotau, Czechoslovakia. Son of Alfred and Elsa (Hoenig) Heller. came to the United States, 1946, naturalized, 1948.
Doctor of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1938.
Instructor biochemistry, Prague, 1935-1937;
intern, then resident, Beth Israel and Montefiore hospitals, New York City, 1946-1948;
physician, Group Health Associations, Washington, 1948-1951;
physician, Veterans Administration Hospital., Omaha, 1952-1954;
director research, West Side Veterans Administration Hospital., Chicago, 1954-1967;
chief medical service, West Side Veterans Administration Hospital., 1967-1969;
professor medicine, University of Illinois College Medicine, since 1963;
senior medical investigator, VA, 1969-1987. Consultant hematologist Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, MacNeal Memorial Hospital. Member of advisory board American Cancer Society, Chicago Leukemia Research Foundation.
Consultant United States Public Health Service.
Imprisoned in German concentration camps, 1939-1945. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Central Society Clinical Research, American Association Immunologists, Association American Physicians, American, International societies hematology.
Married Alice H. Florsheim, August 3, 1946 (deceased January 15, 1987). Children— Thomas Allen, Carol Elizabeth. Married Anna Novak, June 15, 1989.