Background
Habif, David Valentine was born in Cincinnati.
Habif, David Valentine was born in Cincinnati.
Doctor of Medicine Columbia, 1939.
Successively intern, assistant resident surgery, resident surgery, attending surgery, consultant, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1939-1947; Morris and Rose Milstein professor surgery, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1972-1989; professor emeritus, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1989; senior research scientist, Columbia University, 1989.
Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1945. American College of Surgeons fellow. Member of the American Medical Association, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Surgical Association (former vice chairman), Society University Surgeons, Halsted Society, Society.Surgery Alimentary Tract, Allen O. Whipple Surgical Society (president 1968-1970), New York Surgical Society (president 1974-1975).
