Background
Fishman, Alfred Paul was born on September 24, 1918 in New York City. Son of Isaac Fishman and Anne (Tinter) Fishman.
Fishman, Alfred Paul was born on September 24, 1918 in New York City. Son of Isaac Fishman and Anne (Tinter) Fishman.
Bachelor of Arts Michigan, 1938. Master of Science, University Michigan, 1939. Doctor of Medicine, University Louisville, 1943.
Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1971.
Intern, Jewish Hospital, Brooklyn, 1943-1944;
Dazian Foundation fellow pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1946-1947;
assistant resident, resident medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1947-1948;
Dazian Foundation fellow cardiovascular physiology, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1948-1949;
American Heart Association research fellow, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1949-1950;
established investigator American Heart Association cardiopulmonary laboratory, Bellevue Hospital, 1951-1955;
American Heart Association research fellow physiology, Harvard University, Boston, 1950-1951;
instructor physiology, New York University, 1951-1953;
associate in medicine, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 1953-1955;
from assistant professor to associate professor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1955-1966;
associate professor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1958-1966;
professor medicine, University of Chicago, 1966-1969;
director, Institute and Division Cardiovascular Disease Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1966-1969;
professor medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1969-1972;
William Maul Measey professor medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972-1998;
William Maul Measey professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1998;
associate dean School Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1975, 90-91;
director cardiovascular-pulmonary division, University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1990;
department chairman rehabilitation medicine, University of Pennsylvania, since 1990;
steering committee of department chairman, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1992;
associate dean program development, University of Pennsylvania, since 1998;
member county on graduate medical education, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1992-1993. Director Robinette Foundation, Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Pennsylvania Med.Ctr., 1969-1982. Member steering committee department chairman University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1992, county on graduate medical education, 1992-1993.
Director Specialized Center of Research(Lung), 1973-1981. Attending physician Hospital University of Pennsylvania, since 1969. Senior attending physician Philadelphia General Hospital, 1970-1978.
Physician Massachusetts General Hospital,1979. Consultant to chancellor U. Missouri, Kansas City, 1973-1978. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1970, Oxford (England) University, 1972, Washington University, St. Louis, 1973, Johns Hopkins University, 1974, Ben Gurion U., 1975, Emory University, Atlanta, 1976, U. Porto Alegra, Brazilia, Brazil, 1976, U. Zurich, Switzerland,1978, Duke U., 1986, U. North Carolina, 1986.
Visiting scientist for National Institutes of Health to Peking, China, 1980, to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1985. Consultant Executive Office President, 1961-1969, U. Athens, Greece, 1980. Member World Health Organization Expert Panel, Geneva, 1973-1976, National Advisory Heart and Lung Council, National Institutes of Health, 1968-1971, 79-83, Steering Committee of Dept.Chmn University of Pennsylvania Medical Control, 1992, Council on Graduate Medical Education University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1992-1993.
County member College of Physicians of Philadelphia, since 1993. Chairman Governor's Committee for Research on Respiratory Diseases in Coal Miners, 1974-1990,International Conference on Lung, Titisee, Germany, Florence, Italy, 1976, 84, Prague, Czeckoslovakia, 1986, 89, National Institutes of Health Conference Proliferative & Obliterative Vascular Disease., steering committee National Institutes of Health Health Care Financing Administration, National Emphysema Therapy. United States chief delegate International Union of Physiological Sciences, Helsinki, Finland, 1989.
Consultant New York State Board Health, 1987-1991, Cleveland Foundation, since 1984. Visiting committee Case Western Reserve School Medicine, Cleveland, since 1987, Lankenau General Hospital, Philadelphia, 1985. Chairman Scientific Education Partnership, U. Mo-U. Kansas-Merrill Dow, since 1989.
Chair steeringcom. National Institutes of Health Lung Reduction Surgery Centers, 1996.
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Board directors Polachek Foundation, Philadelphia Zoological Society. Member Kansas City Life Sciences Institute, 2000—2001. Fellow: American College of Physicians, Royal College Physicians, American College Chest Physicians (honorary).
Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences (committee on science, education public policy 1987-1990, policy board complementary/alternative medicine 2003), American Thoracic Society (Trudeau medal 2001), Heart Association Southeastern Pennsylvania (board directors), College of Physicians of Philadelphia (council since 1993, governance committee 2006, president 1996-1997), New York County Medical Society, National Space biomedical Research Institute (board directors since 1999), Health Care Financing Administration (member lung transplant center review committee since 1996, National Institutes of Health-HCFA national emphysema treatment trial since 1996, chair steering committee), American College Cardiology (Anugrah Narayan Richards Distinguished Achievement award 1997), Federation American Societies for Experimental Biology (executive board 1983-1985), International Union Physiological Sciences (United States National Committee 1982-1989, chairman 1986-1989), New York Heart Association (president 1965-1967), American Heart Association (chairman council on cardiopulmonary disease 1972-1974, research council 1974-1979, science public committee 1986-1988, board directors 1988-1992, chairman 1988-1994, science advisory committee 1992-1998, founder, Distinguished Achievement award 1980, Merit award 1989, Gold Heart award 1992, Senior Research award 2003), Association American Physicians, Royal Society Medicine (London), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Physiological Society (chairman publications board 1974-1981, president 1983, chairman centennial celebration committee 1985-1987, editor handbook 1986, Ray G. Daggs award 2004, Trudeau medal 2005), Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences (chairman health science board 1990-1995, committee on social and ethical impact of advances in biomedicine 1992-1994, committee on use of The Communications Advertising and Marketing by the public since 2004), Interurban Clinical Club, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Linda Fishman, October 7, 1984. Children: Mark, Jay, Hannah Rae.