Background
Beatus, Ben Louis was born on September 21, 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Ben Louis Senior and Celeste (Borodofsky) Beatus.
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Ben Louis Beatus
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Student, Tulane University, 1954-1957; Doctor of Medicine, U. Tennessee, 1960.
Career
Intern, St. Joseph Hospital, Memphis, 1961;
resident in psychiatry, U. Kansas Medical Center, 1962-1964;
staff psychiatrist, Memphis Mental Health Institute, 1967-1969;
private practice, Memphis, since 1969. Instructor clinical department psychiatry U. Tennessee, 1967-1971, clinical assistant professor, since 1971. Staff member Baptist Memorial Hospital, Baptist Memorial Hospital E., Methodist Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, St. Francis Hospital, Mid-South Hospital, The City of Memphis Hospital, Memphis Jewish Home and Hospital, Memphis Germantown (Tennessee) Comty.
Hospital; department chairman psychiatry Baptist Memorial Hospital, 1978, 82, 90, secretary 1986, physician-nurse liason committee, 1985-1986, credentials com.1985-. Board directors Memphis Jewish Home and Hospital. Cardiac transplant team Baptist Hospital, since 1987.
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Board of directors Memphis Jewish Community Center, 1971-1983. Various committee appointments Temple Israel. Captain United States Air Force, 1965-1967.
Member American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (president West Tennessee chapter 1975-1976, sec.1974), American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Geriatric Society, American Association forGeriatric Psychiatry, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Tennessee Medical Association (confronter impaired physicians committee since 1978), Southern Medical Association, Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society (member grievance committee since 1982).
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Married Sandra Loskovitz, December 21, 1958. Children: Mitchell Drew, Todd Alan.
