Background
Traeger, Cornelius Horace was born on August 14, 1896 in Saint Louis. Son of Victor and Selma (Goetz) Traeger.
Traeger, Cornelius Horace was born on August 14, 1896 in Saint Louis. Son of Victor and Selma (Goetz) Traeger.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1923, Doctor of Medicine 1927.
1 son, Charles. Intern, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, 1927-1929, clinical assistant, 1929-1931, consultant attending physician internal medicine and arthritis, chief arthritis clinic, 1940-1964, consultant, 1964-1968. Company-chief rheumatic diseases Hospital Special Surgery, New York City, 1930-1964, chief emeritus, 1964-1968. Assistant professor clinical medicine Cornell Univercity, 1954-1964.
Executive medical director New York Infirmary, 1962-1964.
Medical director National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1948-1955. Member of advisory council National Institutes of Health Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1950-1954, National Institutes of Health Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, 1962-1966, regional medical programs for heart, cancer and stroke, 1965-1968.
Special consultant to Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, 1954-1957, 62-68. Board Governors Arthritis Foundation, also New York chapter.
Fellow American College Physicians (life), New York Academy of Medicine, New York Academy Science, American Academy Neurology. Member World Health Organization, American Rheumatism Association, Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation (all co-founder). American Geriatric Society, Association American Medical Colleges, American Medical Association, New York State, New York County medical societies, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association, Association Military Surgeons, Association American Physicians and Surgeons, Association Research Nervous and Mental Diseases.
Married Janet Reisner, July 8, 1962.