Donald Jeffery Reis

Background

Reis, Donald Jeffery was born on September 9, 1931 in New York City. Son of Samuel H. and Alice (Kiesler) Reis.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1953; Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity, 1956.

Career

Intern, New York Hospital, New York City, 1956; resident in neurology, Boston City Hospital-Harvard Medical School, 1957-1959; Fulbright fellow, United Cerebral Palsy Foundation fellow, London and Stockholm, 1959-1960; research associate, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1960-1962; special fellow, National Institutes of Health, Nobel Neurophysiology Institute, Stockholm, 1962-1963; assistant professor neurology, Cornell Univercity Medical School, New York City, 1963-1967; associate professor neurology and psychiatry, Cornell Univercity Medical School, 1967-1971; professor, Cornell Univercity Medical School, since 1971; First George C. Cotzias Distinguished professor neurology, neuroscience, Cornell Univercity Medical School, since 1982. Member United States-Soviet Exch. Program; member of advisory county National Institutes of Health.

Board science advisers Merck, Sharpe & Dohm, Sterling Research Group. Consultant Eli Lilly, Servier Pharmaceuticals. Board directors China Seas, Inc., Charles masterson Burke Research Foundation.

Achievements

• Donald Jeffery Reis has been listed as a noteworthy Neurologist, neurobiologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians. Member American Physiological Society, American Neurological Association, American Pharmacol. Society, American Association Physicians, Telluride Association, American Society Clinical Investigation, Century Association, Ellis Island Yacht Club (commadore), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Cornelia Langer Noland, April 13, 1985.

Father:

Samuel H. Reis

Mother:

Alice (Kiesler) Reis

Spouse:

Cornelia Langer Noland