Background
Becker, Ernest Lovell was born on January 13, 1923 in Cincinnati. Son of Ernest Louis and Sarah (Lovell) Becker.
Becker, Ernest Lovell was born on January 13, 1923 in Cincinnati. Son of Ernest Louis and Sarah (Lovell) Becker.
AB, Washntgon and Lee University, 1944. Doctor of Medicine, University Cincinnati, 1948.
Assistant pharmacology, U. Cincinnati College Medicine, 1946-1947;
intern, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, 1948-1949;
junior assistant resident, Medical College Virginia Hospital, Richmond, 1949-1950;
senior assistant resident, Medical College Virginia Hospital, Richmond, 1950-1951;
assistant medicine, Medical College Virginia Hospital, Richmond, 1950-1951;
instructor physiology, New York University College Medicine, 1951-1953;
investigator, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine., summers 1951-1952, 55;
assistant professor medicine, Medical College Virginia, 1955-1957;
assistant professor medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1957-1962;
associate professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1962-1969;
professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1969-1978;
Adjunct Professor, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1978-1986. Director department graduate medical evaluation American Medical Association, 1978-1986. Director Eugene F. DuBois Pavilion, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 1960-1973, chief nephrology andhypertension service, department medicine, 1967-1973.
Assistant attending physician 2d Cornell medical division Bellevue Hospital, 1957-1968. Clinical assistant medicine Memorial Hospital, 1964-1981. Director medicine Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City,1981-1984.
Consultant United States Naval Hospital, St. Albans, New York, 1960-1973. Assistant attending physician New York Hospital, 1957-1965, associate attending physician, 1965-1969, attending physician, 1969-1978. Assistant visiting physician James EwingHosp.
Secretary-general International Company Nomenclature and Nosology Renal Disease. Member research advising committee Health Research Council, New York City, also member metabolic study section, 1965-1978. Chairman ad hoc committee establishing criteria chronic renal disease centers Regional Medical Programs, 1972.
Science advisory com.artificial kidney-chronic uremia program National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, 1971-1978. Member steering committee listing program specialized clinical services, chairman kidney research committee Joint Commission Accreditation Hospitals, 1972-1973. Chairman advising committee renal provisions Human Resources-1, Social Security Administration, 1972-1973.
President National Kidney Foundation, 1970-1973. Captain United States Air Force, 1953-1955. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, Royal Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American College of Physicians.
Member American Society Nephrology (finance chairman), American Heart Association (executive committee renal section council circulation 1965-1967), New York Heart Association (board directors 1965-1970), American Medical Association, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York County Medical Society, New York Medical and Surgical Society, Chicago Medical Society, American Physiological Society, Harvey Society, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Chicago Society Internal Medicine, Southern Society Clinical Research, Explorers Club New York, Century Association, Union Club, Cosmos Club (Washington), Sigma Xi.
Married Margaret Webb Thompson, October 22, 1949 (divorced 1970). Children: James T., Margaret W., Frank L. Married Eleanor Holden, July 14, 1972.