Aaron Reuben Rausen

Background

Rausen, Aaron Reuben was born on June 30, 1930 in Jersey City. Son of David and Ruth (Schwartz) Rausen.

Education

Degree, Dartmouth College, 1950; Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York, Brooklyn, 1954.

Career

Intern, then resident in pediatrics, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City, 1954-1956; chief resident in pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1958-1959; assistant associate and attending pediatrician, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1961-1981; fellow in hematology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1959-1961; chief of pediatrics, City Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York, 1964-1972; director pediatrics, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City, 1972-1981; director pediatric oncology, New York University Medical Center, New York City, since 1981; professor pediatrics, New York University School Medicine, New York City, 1981-1997. Professor pediatrics Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1971-1981. Director Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, New York City, 1990-1997, founding director, since 1997.

Consultant Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, since 1981. Visiting professor Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., 1984-1986.

Achievements

• Aaron Reuben Rausen has been listed as a noteworthy Pediatric hematologist, oncologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors New York City chapter American Cancer Society, since 1984, National Children's CancerFound., since 1992, Children's Oncology Society New York, since 1993, Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, since 1994. Captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1956-1958. Fellow American Academy Pediatrics.

Member American Pediatric Society, American Society Hematology, American Society Clinical Oncology, American Association Cancer Research, American Society Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, New York Pediatric Society (president 1974), Yale ClubN.Y.C., Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Emalou Watkins, April 7, 1968. Children: David, Susan, Elisabeth.

Father:

David Rausen

Mother:

Ruth (Schwartz) Rausen

Spouse:

Emalou Watkins

child:

David Rausen

child:

Susan Rausen

child:

Elisabeth Rausen