Alfred Gellhorn

Background

Gellhorn, Alfred was born on June 4, 1913 in St. Louis. Son of George and Edna (Fischel) Gellhorn.

Education

Student, Amherst College, 1930—1932. Doctor of Science (honorary), Amherst College, 1969. Doctor of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, 1937.

Doctor of Science (honorary), City College of New York, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), State University of New York, 1984. Doctor of Science (honorary), Albany Medical College, 1986.

Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1992.

Career

General surgical training, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1937-1939; gynecology trainee, Passavant Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1939-1940; fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, 1940-1943; instructor, later assistant professor physiology, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1943-1945; assistant, then associate professor pharmacology, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1945-1948; associate professor clinical cancer research department medicine, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1948-1952; associate professor medicine, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1952-1958; professor medicine, College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1958-1968; professor medicine and pharmacology, dean School Medicine, also director Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1968-1973; director Center biomedical Education, City College, vice president for health affairs, CUNY, 1974-1979; emeritus, CUNY, since 1979; director medical affairs, New York State Department Health, Albany, 1983-1996; research director, consultant diamond fund fell. prgm., Aaron Diamond Post Doctoral Research Fellow Prgm., since 1996. Senior consultant Commonwealth Fund, New York, 1979-1980, Aaron Diamond Foundation, since 1987. Visiting professor Harvard School Public Health, 1980-1983.

Physician Francis Delafield Hospital, New York City, 1949-1952, chief medical service, 1952-1968. Visiting professor medicine Albert Einstein Medical School. Director Institute Cancer Research, Columbia.

Board regents National Library Medicine.

Achievements

• Alfred Gellhorn has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of American College of Physicians, American Society Biological Chemistry, Institute Medicine, American Society Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics, American Association Cancer Research (president 1962-1963), New York County Medical Society, Association American Physicians, Society for Clinical Investigation, College Physicians Philadelphia.

Connections

Married Olga Frederick, August 4, 1939. Children— Martha, Anne, Christina, Maria, Edna.

Father:

George Gellhorn

Mother:

Edna (Fischel) Gellhorn

Spouse:

Olga Frederick

child:

Martha Gellhorn

child:

Maria Gellhorn

child:

Edna Gellhorn

child:

Christina Gellhorn

child:

Anne Gellhorn