Background
Gordon, Harry Haskin was born on August 4, 1906 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Ida (Haskin) Gordon.
Gordon, Harry Haskin was born on August 4, 1906 in Brooklyn. Son of Samuel and Ida (Haskin) Gordon.
Bachelor, Cornell University, 1926. Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University, 1929. Doctor of Science, Yeshiva University, 1969.
Intern Montefiore Hospital, New York City, then. New Haven Hospital, 1929-1931. Resident New Haven Hospital, then New York Hospital, 1931-1933.
Associate attending pediatrician New York Hospital, 1933-1946. Pediatrician-in-chief Colorado and Denver General hospitals, 1946-1952, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1952-1962. Attending pediatrician Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1952-1962, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, 1962-1988, medical consultant patient relations office, 1976-1985.
Consultant pediatrician Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, 1964-1988. Director Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development, 1965-1972, director emeritus, 1972-1988. Assistant professor Cornell University Medical College, 1933-1946.
Professor pediatrics University Colorado, 1946-1952. Associate professor pediatrics Johns Hopkins University, 1952-1962. Professor pediatrics Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1962-1977, professor emeritus, 1977-1988, associate dean, 1966-1967, dean, 1967-1970.
Consultant in pediatrics Surgeon General United States Army, 1947-1962, United States Childrens Bureau for Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Childrens Services, 1948-1951. Consultant Surgeon General United States Public Health Service, and director National Institutes of Health, 1949-1978. Member food and nutrition board National Research Council, 1955-1959, member advisory committee on child development, 1971-1973, member board on maternal, child and family health research, 1975-1977.
Member Health Task Force, New York Urban Coalition, 1970-1973. Consultant Kennedy Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University, 1974-1985. Career scientist Health Research Council City New York, 1962-1967.
Served from captain to lieutenant colonel Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Pediatric Society (John Howland award 1975, past president), Society Pediatric Research (past president), American Academy Pediatrics (First Borden Research award 1944, C. Anderson Aldrich award 1976), American Society Clinical Investigation, American Association Mental Deficiency (Distinguished Service award 1973), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Lois Chasins (deceased 1943). Married Fayga Halpern, June 8, 1948. Children: Charles, Deborah.