George Piness

Background

Piness, George was born on October 16, 1891 in Odessa, Russia. Son of Louis and Sara (Roussel) Piness.

Education

Naturalized American citizen since 1914. Doctor of Medicine, University of Maryland, 1913. Doctor Humane Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1959.

Doctor of Laws, Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1964.

Career

International Passaic (New Jersey) General Hospital, 1913-1914. Resident physician, Hospital of Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, 1916-1918. Graduate work in allergy, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 1918.

In practice of medicine, Los Angeles, California, 1918-1970.

Senior attending in medicine, Cedar of Lebanon Hospital, 1918, attending in medicine, Hospital of Good Samaritan. Chief allergy clinic, Good Hope Hospital Association, Childrens Hospital Society (all Los Angeles).

Consultant in allergy, Barlow Sanatorium, Los Angeles, 1920, Saint Anne’s Maternity Hospital, 1944, Long Beach Victoria and Albert Hospital, 1946. Lecturer in pediatrics (allergy), University of California, San Francisco, 1945, Bishop Johnson School of Nursing.

Associate professor medicine University of Southern California, 1944-1948.

Chief of allergy, chairman medical advisory board City of Hope Medical Center. Past Chairman of the Board Saint Anne’s Maternity Hospital Senior surgical United States Public Health Service Reserve.

Achievements

• George Piness has been listed as a noteworthy physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member board directors Union Bank, Los Los Angeles Director Los Angeles Convalescent Home, (associate) Los Angeles Physicians Aid Association Director Los Angeles Convalescent Home. Member of the board of trustees Reed College, Portland, Oregon. Member of advisory board allergy American Board Internal Medicine.

Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Allergy.

Member American Academy Applied Nutrition, California, Los Angeles academics medicine American Foundation for Allergic Diseases (trustee), Los Angeles Physician Aid. Mason (Shriner).; Clubs: Los Angeles, Los Angeles California.

Connections

Married Hortense Weil, April. Children: Maxine Louise (wife of Ralph Bookman, Doctor of Medicine), George, Junior.

Father:

Louis Piness

Mother:

Sara (Roussel) Piness

Spouse:

Hortense Weil

child:

George Piness

child:

Doctor of Medicine) Piness

child:

Maxine Louise (wife of Ralph Bookman Piness

child:

Junior Piness