Conrad Berens

Background

Berens, Conrad was born on December 2, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Conrad and Mary E. (Brockett) Berens.

Education

Preparatory education Protestant Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1911.

Career

; 1 son, Richard. Married second, Katherine Andrea Parker, July 12, 1923. Married 3d, Frances Penington Cookman.

Children—Lawrence Penington, Rodney Bristal.

Advisory attending surgeon-consultant pathologist, consultant-director research New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. Lecturer ophthalmology New York University Post-graduate Medical School.

Professor clinical ophthalmology Columbia, 1943-1946. Consultant ophthalmology Saint Clare’s Hospital, French Hospital, Midtown Hospital, Glen Cove Community Hospital, Nassau Hospital.

Member medical board Doctor’s Hospital.

Visiting staff Hempstead General Hospital. Consultant Riverview Hospital. Chairman Council for Research in Glaucoma and Allied Diseases.

Staff Southside Hospital.

Managing director Ophthalmological Foundation, Incorporated. Former consultant ophthalmology air surgeon, United States Army.

President Snyder Ophthalmic Foundation. Trustee Seeing Eye; director New York Association for Blind, National Society Prevention Blindness.

Chairman American Committee on Optics and Visual Physiology.

Vice president International Association Prevention Blindness. Vice president International Council on Ophthalmology chairman American Board Ophthalmology, 1938-1943, consultant, 1948-1959, emeritus. Commissioned Lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corps, 1917.

France, World War I.

Lieutenant colonel, since 1924.

Achievements

• Conrad Berens has been listed as a noteworthy ophthalmologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member medical board Doctor’s Hospital. American College of Surgeons fellowship Member of the American Medical Association (chairman of the section ophthalmology 1943), Medical Society State New York (chairman eye section 1931), American Academy Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (president 1949), New York Academy of Medicine (chairman eye section 1923), American, New York (president 1939) ophthalmological societies, Association.

Clubs: Racquet and Tennis, Piping Rock, Seawanhaka Yacht, University.

Connections

Married Katherine Simpson Storrs, June 15, 1916 (deceased. Married second, Katherine Andrea Parker, July 12, 1923. Children: Lawrence Penington, Rodney Bristal.

Father:

Conrad Berens

Mother:

Mary East. (Brockett) Berens

Spouse:

Katherine Simpson Storrs

Spouse:

Katherine Andrea Parker

child:

Rodney Bristal Berens

child:

Lawrence Penington Berens