Clarence Mendel Agress

Background

Agress, Clarence Mendel was born on March 10, 1912 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Max and Jennie (Bain) Agress.

Education

Bachelor, Harvard University, 1933; Doctor of Medicine, University Texas, Galveston, 1937.

Career

Resident in medicine, Los Angeles County Hospital, Los Angeles, 1937-1941; instructor medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1940-1941; private practice,, Los Angeles, since 1945; chief medicine, Harbor Hospital, Torrance, California, 1953-1954; chief investigator, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital., Los Angeles, 1950-1956; chief cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1960-1967; investigator man in space for National Aeronautics and Space Administration,, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1963-1968; senior attending in medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, since 1950; chairman molecular cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1994; professor medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 1945-1992; emeritus professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1992; Philip Lyon Chair in Molecular Cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1995.

Achievements

• Clarence Mendel Agress has been listed as a noteworthy Internist, cardiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Biochemical Diagnosis of Heart Disease

Membership

Major Medical Corps, United States Army, 1942-1945, China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations. Fellow American College Cardioloby (board directors), American College Chest Physicians (life), American College Physiology (life), numerous others.

Interests

• Avocations: painting, writing, golf, tennis.

Connections

Married Marjorie Kauffman, June 10, 1937 (deceased 1970). Children: Carol Agress Zaslow, Edith Agress Gore. Married Patricia Patella, February 13, 1972.

Father:

Max Agress

Mother:

Jennie (Bain) Agress

Spouse:

Patricia Patella

Spouse:

Marjorie Kauffman

child:

Carol Agress Zaslow Agress

child:

Edith Agress Gore Agress