Gene Howard Stollerman

Background

Stollerman, Gene Howard was born on December 6, 1920 in New York City. Son of Maurice William and Sarah Dorothy (Mezz) Stollerman.

Education

AB summa cum laude, Dartmouth College, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1944.

Career

Clinical training Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1944-1946, chief medical resident, 1948. Dazian research fellow microbiology New York University Medical School, 1949-1950, member department medicine, 1951-1955. Medical director Irvington House for Cardiac Children, 1951-1955.

Principal investigator Sackett Foundation Research in Rheumatic Diseases, 1955-1964. Assistant professor medicine Northwestern University, 1955-1957, associate professor, 1957-1961, professor medicine, 1961-1965. Professor, chairman department medicine University Tennessee, 1965-1981, Goodman professor, 1977-1981.

Physician-in-chief City of Memphis Hospitals, 1965-1981. Professor medicine Boston University School Medicine, 1981-1995, professor public health, 1991-1995, professor medicine public health emeritus, since 1996. Chief section general internal medicine University Hospital, Boston University Medical Center, 1983-1986.

Distinguished physician Veterans Administration Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1986-1989. Associate chief of staff Geriatrics and Extended Care, 1989-1992. Clinical director Bedford division Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, 1989-1992.

Director Veterans Administration Health Services Research Field, 1990-1993. Chairman research career program committee NIAMD-National Institutes of Health, 1967-1970. Member commission streptococcal and staphylococcal diseases United States Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, 1956-1974.

Advisory board immunization practices Center for Disease Control, 1968-1971. Expert advisory panel cardiovascular disease World Health Organization, since 1966. Member American Board Internal Medicine, 1967-1973, chairman certified examination committee, 1969-1973, member executive committee, 1971-1973.

Chairman Panel on Bacterial Vaccines, Food and Drug Administration, 1973-1980. Member national advisory council National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1978-1982. Member Department Health & Human Services national vaccine advisory committee.

Captain Medical Corps. United States Army, 1945-1947.

Achievements

• Gene Howard Stollerman has been listed as a noteworthy internist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as captain Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1946-1948. Master American College of Physicians (board regents 1978, vice president 1984, Bruce medal for preventive medicine 1985), American College Rheumatology. Member American Heart Association (member executive committee, president council on rheumatic fever and congenital disease 1965-1967), American Federation Clinical Research, American Rheumatism Association, American Society Clinical Investigation, Center Society Clinical Research (vice president 1973-1974, president 1974-1975), Association Professors Medicine (president 1975-1976), American Association Immunologists, Association American Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America (council 1968-1970), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Corynne Miller, January 21, 1945 (deceased March 1997). Children: Lee Denise Stollerman Meyburg, Anne Barbara Stollerman DiZio, John Eliot. Married Vita Mark, November 9, 1997.

Father:

Maurice William Stollerman

Mother:

Sarah Dorothy (Mezz) Stollerman

Spouse:

Vita Mark

Spouse:

Corynne Miller

child:

Anne Barbara Stollerman DiZio Stollerman

child:

Lee Denise Stollerman Meyburg Stollerman

child:

John Eliot Stollerman