Background
Friedman, Arnold Phineas was born on August 25, 1909 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Carl and Lena (Levy) Friedman.
Friedman, Arnold Phineas was born on August 25, 1909 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Carl and Lena (Levy) Friedman.
Bachelor, University Southern California, 1932. Master of Arts in Psychology, University Southern California, 1934. Doctor of Medicine, University Oregon, 1939.
Intern, then resident in neurology, Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, 1939-1942;
assistant in neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1941-1942;
assistant physician, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1942-1943;
resident in charge head injury project, research associate, Boston City Hospital, 1943-1944;
fellow in neurology, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1943-1944;
private practice,, New York City, 1946-1973;
physician-in-charge headache unit, Montefiore Hospital, New York City, 1947-1973;
attending physician division neurology, Montefiore Hospital, New York City, 1949-1973;
professor neurology, U. Arizona Medical School, Tucson, 1973-1975;
consultant, Neurological Associations, Tucson, 1975-1985. Associate attending physician Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1949-1971, attendingphysician, 1971-1973. Instructor Columbia University, 1944-1945, assistant clinical professor, 1950-1954, associate clinical professor, 1954-1967, clinical professor, 1967-1973.
Special consultant National Institutes of Health, 1961-1973, chairman panel on headache, 1960-1967. Chairman, secretary research group on headache and migrane World Federation Neurology, 1967-1973. Member scope panel on neuropsychiatry United States Pharmacopeia, 1960-1970, member of advisory panel on neurological disease therapy, 1970-1985.
Honorary surgeon New York City Police Department, 1961-1973.
Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1941-1942. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Neurology (trustee 1958-1959), American Psychiatric Association (Rush silver medal 1969), New York Academy of Medicine (chairman of the section neurology and psychiatry 1966-1968). Member American Medical Association (vice chairman of the section nervous and mental diseases 1962-1963, chairman 1963-1964, consultant new and non-official drugs 1960-1985), Billings silver medal 1959, certified of merit 1972), American Association Neuropathologists, American Neurological Association, International Collegium Allergilocicum, Pan American Medical Association, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, New York State Medical assosiation, New York County Medical assosiation, New York Neurological Society, Psi Chi.
Married Sara Fritz, July 10, 1939. 1 child, Carol Ludwig.