Adrian Michael Ostfeld

Background

Ostfeld, Adrian Michael was born on September 2, 1926 in St. Louis. Son of Simon and Margaret (Fisman) Ostfeld.

Education

Student, Washington University, St. Louis, 1943-1944, 46-47; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Washington University, St. Louis, 1951.

Career

Instructor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1955-1956; faculty, University of Illinois College Medicine Chicago, 1956-1968; professor preventive medicine, University of Illinois College Medicine Chicago, 1963-1966; head Department, University Illinois College Medicine Chicago, 1966-1968; staff, Research and Education Hospitals, 1956-1968; department chairman epidemiology public health, Yale University, 1968-1970; Anna Lauder professor epidemiology public health, Yale University, 1970-1994; professor emeritus, since 1994; head division chronic disease epidemiology, Yale University director medical student education School Public Health, Yale University, 1971-1975. Special consultant Surgeon General United States Public Health Service, since 1964. Chairman ad hoc commission on life prolonging drugs National Institutes of Health, 1973-1976, member of national advisory council on aging.

Consultant council on drugs American Medical Association, since 1964. Consultant human experimentation National Institute.on Aging, 1977, consultant, 1979, member overall program planning panel, since 1981. Member Mayor's Committee on Elderly, New Haven, vice chairman, 1972, chairman, 1977-1980.

Co-chairman Nationwide Study Precursors of Stroke. Director Connecticut High Blood Pressure Program. Consultant American Institute Biological Sciences, Population Laboratory.

National consultant White House Conference on Aging, 1981. Member research review committee B National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, since 1976. Member Executive Committee Yale Center for Behavioral Medicine, since 1977.

Vice president Connecticut Heart Association, 1978-1980, president, 1980-1982. Member of national policy board on health andphys. fitness Young Men’s Christian Association, 1979-1981. Chairman Commissioners Council on Hypertension Connecticut.

Member Interagy. Planning Group on Coronary Heart Disease Prevention, 1981. Consultant Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Commonwealth Found. Mem.cardiac advising committee New York State Health Department, 1989.

Member commission on drug use in the workplace National Research Council, 1991.

Achievements

• Adrian Michael Ostfeld has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The common headache syndromes: Biochemistry, patho-physiology (American lecture series, publication no. 495. A monograph in American lectures in living chemistry)

    (Illinois 1962 Thomas. Thin 8vo., 86pp. Near VG, light spi...)

  • THE COMMON HEADACHE SYNDROMES: BIOCHEMISTRY, PATHOLOPHYSIOLOGY, THERAPY

Membership

Member panel on national health care survey National Research Council, 1989. Fellow Royal Society Health, Society Clinical Investigation, Royal Society Medicine. Member NAS (commission on research in the prevention of addiction 1989), Institute Medicine (commission to evaluate artificial heart program National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, coordinator health promotion and disease prevention for the second fifty 1990, commission on epidemiology and veterans studies 1991), American Epidemol.

Society, American College Epidemiology, American Heart Association (fellowcouns. on stroke and epidemiology, Chairman of Commission risk education in heart attack and stroke, Distinguished Volunteer award 1976, C-E. A. Winslow award 1976,Ivy award 1987), American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American College Preventive Medicine, Gerontological Society, International Platform Association, American Public Health Association, American College Preventive Medicine, Institute of Medicine (program committee), Connecticut Academy Science and Engineering, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Association of University Professors, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Ruth Vogel, December 31, 1950. Children: Barbara, Richard, Robin.

Father:

Simon Ostfeld

Mother:

Margaret (Fisman) Ostfeld

Spouse:

Ruth Vogel

child:

Richard Ostfeld

child:

Robin Ostfeld

child:

Barbara Ostfeld