Background
Price, Elizabeth was born on November 9, 1920 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Walter Henry and Jeanette Amalie (Stern) Price.
Price, Elizabeth was born on November 9, 1920 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Walter Henry and Jeanette Amalie (Stern) Price.
Bachelor, Barnard College, 1941. Master of Arts in Public Administration, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, George Washington University, 1951.
Master in Public Health, Columbia University, 1960. Master of Oral Tradition, Graduate Institute, 2004.
Social worker American Red Cross, Madigan Hospital, Tacoma, 1944—1945. Disaster relief worker American Red Cross, New Albany, Indiana, 1945. Labor economist United States Bureau Labor Statistics, Washington, 1945—1947.
Zoology laboratory assistant George Washington University, 1946—1947. Flood relief worker American Red Cross, Brunswick, Missouri, 1947. Intern Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1951—1952.
Assistant resident, medicine Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, 1952—1953. Assistant resident, pathology Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1953—1954, resident in medicine, 1954—1955. Medical officer United States Public Health Service, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1956—1958, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Long Lines, New York City, 1960.
Private practice physician, 1960—1964. Medical officer Consolidated Edison, 1961—1963. Assistant physician Gouverneur Ambulatory Care, 1961—1962.
Attending physician Morrisania Hospital, Brooklyn, 1961—1962, Cumberland Hospital, Brooklyn, 1963—1964. Internist New York Hospital, New York City, 1958—1961. Attending physician Brooklyn Hospital, 1963.
Chief, Coney Island Home Care Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, 1964—1967. Assistant professor medicine, preventive medicine public health University Rochester, 1968—1969. Assistant professor preventive medicine Tufts University, Boston, 1969—1970.
Chief, community medicine Alaska Division Public Health, Juneau, 1970—1975. Associate professor cmty medicine University Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama, 1976—1977. Consultant in international health American Public Health Association, Washington, 1977.
Medical officer United States Mine Safety and Health Administration, Arlington, Virginia, 1978, United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Rockville, Maryland, 1978—1979. Physician International Rescue Committee, Malaysia, 1979—1980. Medical officer National Ocean Service, United States Public Health Service, shipboard to and from equator, 1983.
Retired, 1981; consultant. Health officer New York City Department Health, 1958—1960. Expert witness for asylum seekers Medical Committee for Human Rights, Elizabeth, New Jersey, York, Pennsylvania, other cities, since 1995.
Instructor public health nurses Alaska Division Public Health, 1975. World Health Organization travel fellow, Circumpolar Conference speaker, Scandinavia, 73. Creator rural preceptorship for medical students in northern Alabama, 1976—1977.
Speaker in field; Woman pilot trainee United States War Department, 1943, medical director, captain United States Public Health Service, Nepal, 1956-1958, 1983.
Medical observer Medical Committee for Human Rights, Selma, Alabama, 1965. Demonstrator seeking closure School of the American mathematical society, Fort Bragg, Georgia. Volunteer counselor Seattle Senior Rights Office, 1987—1993.
Fellow: American Public Health Association, American College Preventive Medicine. Member: League of Women Voters, Physicians for Human Rights, United Nations Association.