Background
Gonda, Harry Henrik was born on April 17, 1915 in Mako, Hungary. Son of Joseph and Regina (Frankel) Gonda. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1954.
Gonda, Harry Henrik was born on April 17, 1915 in Mako, Hungary. Son of Joseph and Regina (Frankel) Gonda. came to the United States, 1949, naturalized, 1954.
Baccalaureate summa cum laude, Matura Realgymnasium, Debrecen, Hungary, 1933; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, U Debrecen, 1939.
Rotating intern, University Hospitals, Debrecen, 1940-1941;
resident in internal medicine, Chevra Kadisha Hospital, Nagyvarad, Hungary, 1941-1942;
resident, Neuropsychiat. Institute, U. Debrecen, 1945;
fellow in child psychiatry, Brooklyn Juvenile Guidance Center, 1959;
fellow in child psychiatry, Jewish Board Guardians, 1960-1961;
deputy director, Suffolk Psychiatric Hospital, to 1970;
medical director, South Shore Child Guidance Center, Freeport, New York, 1970-1979;
staff psychiatrist, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, New York, 1975-1980;
psychiatric consultant Student Health Svc., California State University, Long Beach, 1979-1991;
psychiatric consultant, Long Beach Mental Health Center-Children's Day Treatment Center, since 1980. Private practice adult psychiatry, 1957-1980, child and adolescent psychiatry, 1961-1980.
Assistant clinical professor psychiatry Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1966-1974. Assistant professor clinical psychiatry State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1976-1980.
Fellow American Psychiatric Society. Member Medical Society State of New York, Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Hospitals Medical Alumni Association (secretary 1976-1980).
Married Clara Turai-Lichtig, May 6, 1939. Children: John Richard, Robert Dale.