Background
Bering, Edgar Andrew was born on February 18, 1917 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edgar Andrew and Ilse (Billing) Bering.
Bering, Edgar Andrew was born on February 18, 1917 in Salt Lake City. Son of Edgar Andrew and Ilse (Billing) Bering.
Bachelor of Arts, University Utah, 1937. Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1941. Postgraduate Columbia University, 1947.
House officer BostonCity Hospital, 1941-1942. Special research associate Department Physical Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1942-1944. Assistant in neurosurgery, special researchassoc., demonstrator in anatomy New York Medical College and Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York City, 1946-1948.
Moseley travelling fellow of Harvard Medical School, National Hospital, Queens Square, London, and clinical clerk, 1948-1949.
Resident in neurosurgery Childrens Hospital and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston 1949-1950. Practice medicine, Easton, Maryland., 1974-1985.
Teaching fellow in surgery Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1949-1950, assistant in surgery, 1952,clinical associate in surgery, 1956-1959, assistant clinical professor surgery, 1959-1965;research fellow in neurosurgery Children"s Hospital, Boston, 1950-1951, assistant neurosurgeon, 1950-1955, director neurosurgery research laboratory, 1952-1963, associate neurosurgeon, 1955-1964. Harvey Cushing fellow Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1950-1951, junior associate in neurological surgery, 1950-1963.
Senior fellow in polimoyelitis, National Research Council, 1951-1952.
Consultant in surgery of nervous system Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 1953-1955. Attending neurosurgeon West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital., 1954-1963. Visiting lecturer neurosurgery University of California at Los Angeles Medical School, 1958.
Visiting scientist National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1963-1965.
Special assistant to director for programanalysis National Institute Neurological Diseases and and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1965-1971. Consultant to advising committee on coagulation components Commision on Plasma Fractionation and Related Products, 1954-1994.
Chief special programs branch Collaborative and Field Research, National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1971-1974. Associate clinical professor neurological surgery Georgetown University, Washington, 1968-1984.
Consultant neurological and electroencephalographic department Eastern Shore Hospital, Cambridge, Maryland., 1975-1994.
Consultant Neurosurg. Department, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1975-1984 active staff neurosurgery and electroencephalographic department Memorial Hospital of Easton, 1974-1994, vice chief of staff, 1981-1983, chief staff, 1983-1985.
Served with Medical Corps, United States Navy, 1942-1946. Rockefeller fellow, 1940. Member American Academy Neurology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Neurological Surgeons, Society for Neurosci.
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Married Harriet Crocker Aldrich, November 3, 1944. Children: Edgar Andrew, Charles C., Harriet A. Surgical.