Background
Lubs, Herbert Augustus was born on January 7, 1929.
administrator genetics educator
Lubs, Herbert Augustus was born on January 7, 1929.
Bachelor, Washington and Lee University, 1950. Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1954.
Intern Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1954-1955, resident in medicine, 1957-1959, chief resident Connecticut, 1959-1960. Clinical associate, endocrinology branch National Cancer Institute, United States Public Health Service, Bethesda, Maryland, 1955-1957. Special trainee in research and genetics National Institutes of Health, Department of Human Genetics, University Michigan and Department Biology, Yale University, 1957-1963.
Instructor in Medicine Yale School Medicine, New Haven, 1959-1963, assistant professor Medicine, chief section medicine genetics, 1963-1967. Clinical investigator Veterans Administration Hospital, West Haven, 1960-1963. Director Yale Private Diagnostic Clinic, New Haven, 1964-1966.
Associate professor department pediatrics University Colorado Medical Center, Denver, 1968-1979, associate professor department biophysics and genetics, 1973-1979. Professor department pediatrics, director genetics division, Mailman Center for Child Development University Miami School Medicine, Florida, 1979—2004, professor emeritus, since 2004. Professor genetics University Tromsø, Norway, 1992-1999.
Lecturer numerous medical schools and meetings. Science presentations at national and international meetings. Member human subjects review committee, 1980-1983, University Miami School Medicine, dean's task force on genetics, 1982-1984, human subjects executive review committee, since 1984.
Chairman Committee on Environmental Hazards, American Society of Human Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development sponsored meeting genetic counseling, 1979. Consultant Standing Committee on Chromosome Nomenclature. Member Medical Advisory Committee to Indor Radon Study, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1975-1979, Governor's Advisory Council on Radiation, Colorado, 1979.
Co-chairman National Institutes of Health meeting on Marker X, 1983. Chairman American Society of Human Genetics Genetic Services subcommittee on Cytogeneticvs Laboratory Proficiency Testing and Quality Assurance. Steering committee National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Study on Chorionic Villus Sampling and Amniocentesis, since 1984.
Member various National Institutes of Health site visit committees and ad hoc review committees, since 1979. Member American Society of Human Genetics (board directors, Genetic Services Committee since 1985, Travel Committee 1986, Tissue Culture Society), American Federal for Clinical Research, Society for Study of Social Biology, Southern Society for Pediatric Research, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa.