Barbara M. Korsch

Background

Korsch, Barbara M. was born on March 30, 1921 in Jena, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1936.

Education

Bachelor, Smith College, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1944.

Career

Assistant resident Bellevue Hospital, 1945, Mary Imogene Basset Hospital, 1946, New York Hospital, 1947, fellow Institute Child Development, 1948—1949. Assistant pediatrics Medical College Cornell University, 1949—1950, from instructor to associate professor, 1950—1961. Associate clinical professor preventive medicine School Medicine University of California at Los Angeles, 1961—1964.

Associate professor Keck School Medicine, University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1964—1969, professor pediatrics School Medicine, since 1969. George Armstrong lecturer Ambulatory Pediatric Association, 1973. Katherine D. McCormick Distinguished lecturer Stanford University, 1977.

Kathy Newman Memorial lecturer Tulane University, 1987. Assistant outpatient pediatrician New York Hospitals, 1949—1950, assistant attending pediatrician, 1950—1955, clinical director pediatric outpatient department, 1950—1961, associate attending pediatrician, 1955—1961. Pediatric consultant Department Health, New York, 1949—1951, Hospital Special Surgery, 1955—1961, General Pediatric Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles, 1961—1965, Medical Center, University Southern California, 1969—1974.

Coordinator pediatric rehabilitation program National Foundation Infantile Paralysis, 1953—1961. Pediatric director Observatory Clinic Children Los Angeles, 1961—1964. Associate attending pediatrician Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, since 1961.

Visiting professor numerous United States and foreign universities, 1973—1989. Honorary staff member department pediatrics Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, since 1976. Attending pediatrician, director behavioral and development program, director doctor-patient communications project Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Philip Rothman fellow, since 1999.

Achievements

• Barbara M. Korsch has been listed as a noteworthy Pediatrician by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen by Barbara M. Korsch (1998-11-05)
  • The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen by Barbara M. Korsch (1997-10-30)
  • The Intelligent Patient's Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Learning How to Talk So Your Doctor Will Listen

Membership

Chairman council Bayer Institute for Health Communications, 1989—1998. Member of Society Pediatric Research, Society Behavioral Pediatrics (president 1985), American Pediatric Society, American Academy Pediatrics (C. Anderson Aldrich award 1988, Genesis award for medical ethics 1998), Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Widowed; 1 child.