Background
Zimmerman, Harry Martin was born on September 28, 1901 in Vilna, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Came to the United States, 1909. Son of Jacob and Anna (Kaplan) Zimmerman.
Zimmerman, Harry Martin was born on September 28, 1901 in Vilna, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Came to the United States, 1909. Son of Jacob and Anna (Kaplan) Zimmerman.
Bachelor of Science, Yale University, 1924. Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1927. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1957.
Intern, New Haven Hospital, 1927-1928;
resident, New Haven Hospital, 1928-1930;
assistant to associate professor pathology, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930-1943;
director department pathology, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1946-1973;
consultant pathology, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1973-1995. Professor pathology College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1948-1964, Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, 1963-1973. Associate pathologist New Haven Hospital, 1933-1943.
Senior consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., Bronx, 1946-1972. Neuropathology consultant Armed Forces Institute Pathology, Washington, 1949-1973. Chairman research review panel National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1946-1967.
Member, chairman bd counselors National Institute Neurologic Diseases and Strokes, Bethesda, Maryland., 1972-1977.
Trustee American Cancer Society, 1961-1965. Member panel on specialization President' Commission on Health of the Nation, 1952. Served to Commander United States Navy, 1943-1946, PTO. Fellow College American Pathologists.
Member American Association Pathologists (gold headed cane award 1982), Association Research in Nervous & Mental Diseases (president 1964), New York Pathol. Society (president 1959-1961), American Neurological Association (honorary).
Married Miriam Gordon, September 2, 1930.