Daniel Michael Musher

Background

Musher, Daniel Michael was born on February 27, 1938 in New York City. Son of Sidney and Hadassah (Kaplan) Musher.

Education

AB magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1959; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1963; postgraduate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969-1970.

Career

Intern, junior medical resident first medical division, Bellevue Hospital, 1963-1965; senior medical resident, Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospitals, 1967-1968; National Institutes of Health trainee in infectious diseases, New England Medical Center Hospitals, 1968-1971; instructor medicine, Tufts U. School Medicine, 1970-1971; assistant professor medicine, assistant professor microbiology & immunology, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1971-1973; associate professor, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1974-1978; professor microbiology and immunology, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, since 1979; professor medicine, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, since 1979; chief infectious diseases, Baylor College Medicine, Houston, since 1994; chief infectious disease section, VA Medical Center, Houston, since 1971. Member Baylor House Staff Selection Committee, since 1973. Member infection controlcom.

VA Medical Center, since 1971, chairman, 1971, member Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome task force, since 1987. Member Baylor Department Medicine Task Force, since 1987. Member Baylor Department Medicine Executive Faculty, since 1992.

Achievements

• Daniel Michael Musher has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman education William Malev Schools of Congregation Beth Yeshurun, Houston, since 1993. Board member, past president I. Weiner Jewish Secondary School, Houston, since 1979. Board member Congregation Beth Yeshurun, Houston, since 1975.

Board member, vice president, president Houston Friends of Music, since 1975. With United States Air Force, 1965-1967. Fellow American College of Physicians.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Immunologists, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Microbiology, Southern Society Clin.Investigation, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Interests

• Avocations: music (string quartet playing), reading.

Connections

Married Karol Sue Katz, June 17, 1967;children: Rebecca Leah, Benjamin Leon, Deborah Annual.

Father:

Sidney Musher

Mother:

Hadassah (Kaplan) Musher

Spouse:

Karol Sue Katz

child:

Benjamin Leon Musher

child:

Rebecca Leah Musher

child:

Deborah Annual Musher