Background
Eisenberg, Leon was born on August 8, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and and Elizabeth (Sabreen) Eisenberg.
Eisenberg, Leon was born on August 8, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Morris and and Elizabeth (Sabreen) Eisenberg.
AB, University of Pennsylvania, 1944; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1946; Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1967; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Manchester, England, 1973; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1991.
Intern Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1946—1947. Instructor physiology University Pennsylvania, 1947-1948. Resident psychiatry Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland, 1950-1952.
With Johns Hopkins, 1952-1967, professor child psychiatry Medical School, 1961-1967. Psychiatrist-in-charge children's psychiatric service Harriet Lane Home, 1958-1967. Professor psychiatry Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1967—1993, professor psychiatry emeritus, 1993—2009, professor of social medicine emeritus, from 1993, Maude and Lillian Presley professor psychiatry, 1975-1980, Maude and Lillian Presley professor social medicine, 1980-1993, chairman executive committee department psychiatry, 1973-1980, chairman department, 1980-1991.
Psychiatrist-in-chief Massachusetts General Hospital, 1967-1974, member board consultation, 1974—2009. Senior associate in psychiatry Children's Hospital, Boston, 1974—2009. Paley lecturer Cornell University, 1983.
Schilder lecturer New York University, 1984. Eli Robins lecturer Washington University, St. Louis, 1985. Plenary session lecturer International Pediatrics Association, Amsterdam, 1998.
Lecturer Italian Psychiatric Society, Bologna, 1998. Alpha Omega Alpha lecturer University Rochester, 1999. Plenary lecturer World Psychiatric Association, Athens, 1999.
Visiting lecturer Yale University, 1987, John Peters lecturer, 2002. R.W. Johnson visiting professor University Rochester, 1987. Carolyn Voorsanger lecturer Stanford University Medical School, 1989.
Willard Sears Simpkins lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1989. William Potter lecturer Thomas Jefferson University, 1992. Visiting professor McMaster University, Canada, 1991, Charles University, Prague.
Psychiatric consultant Crownsville (Maryland) State Hospital, 1954—1958, Rosewood State Training School, Owings Mills, Maryland, 1957—1960, Baltimore City Hospital, 1959—1962, Children's Guild, Baltimore, 1954—1961. Consultant Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1963—1967. Mapother-Lewis annual lecturer Maudsley Hospital, London, 1977.
Baan Memorial lecturer Netherlands Psychiatric Society, Amsterdam, 1978. Royal Society Medicine visiting professor, London, 83. Member subcommittee psychiatric nomenclature committee vital statistics United States Public Health Service.
Chairman World Health Organization Conference Development Regulation, 1964—1967. Member Joint Commission Mental Health of Children. Consultant division mental health World Health Organization, from 1974, chairman science group on evaluation of psychiatric treatment, 1989.
Member advisory committee to director National Institutes of Health, 1977—1980. Lecturer Canada Royal College Psychiatry, 1993, Italian Society for Biological Psychiatry, Cagliari, Sardinia, 1994. Richard Goldbloom lecturer Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1995.
Wolfe Adler lecturer Sheppard-Pratt Hospital Systems, Baltimore, 1995. Special lecturer Health of the Child of the Eve of the Year 2000, Bologna, Italy, 1995. Plenary lecturer Royal Australian & New Zealand College Psychiatry, 1999, World Congress of Psychiatry, Hamburg, 1999, XII World Congress of Psychiatry, Yokohama, Japan, 2002.
Captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1948-1950. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society Medicine, Society Research Child Development (Public Policy award 2003), American Orthopsychiat. Association (Ittleson Memorial award 1996), American Psychiatric Association (life.
Trustee 1973-1976, Distinguished Service award 2003, Human Rights award 2005), Royal College Psychiatrists (honorary. Eli Lilly lecturer 1986). Member: I.O.M. (chair committee on planned childbearing 1993-1995, chair committee bridging the brain, behavioral and clinical science 1999—2000), American Association of University Professors (past president Johns Hopkins chapter), Massachusetts Medical Society, Society Neurosci., Psychiatric Research Society (past president), American Academy Arts and Sciences (communications secretary 1995—2002), Maryland Psychiatric Society (past president), Greek Society Neurology and Psychiatry (honorary), Ecuadorean Society Neurosci.
(honorary), American Psychopath. Association, Association Research Nervous and Mental Disease, Canada Pediatrics Society (Queen Elizabeth II lecturer 1986), American Pediatrics Society, American Academy Pediatrics (Dale Richmond lecturer 1989, Aldrich award 1980), Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences (council 1975-1977, program and membership committees 1979-1982, board on health science policy 1989-1991, Rhoda and Bernard Samat prize in mental health 1996), Johns Hopkins Society Scholars, Alpha Omega Alpha (lecturer Jefferson Medical College 1994), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa (chapter president 1958, visiting scholar 1994-1995).
Married Ruth Harriet Bleier, June 11, 1948 (divorced 1967). Children: Mark Philip, Kathy Bleier. Married Carola Blitzman Guttmacher, August 31, 1967.
Children: Laurence, Alan.