Howard Bruce Waitzkin

Background

Waitzkin, Howard Bruce was born on September 6, 1945 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Edward and Dorothy (Lederman) Waitzkin.

Education

Bachelor summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1966; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1969; Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1972.

Career

Resident in medicine, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1972-1975; Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar departments sociology-medicine, Stanford (California) U. Medical Center, 1973-1975; senior resident in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1977-1978; associate professor sociology, clinical assistant professor medicine, U. Vermont, Burlington, 1975-1977; visiting associate professor health and medical science, University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1982; clinical assistant professor medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1978-1982; internist, La Clínica de la Raza, Oakland, California, 1978-1982; professor medicine and social science, University of California, Irvine, 1982-1996; chief division general internal medicine and primary care, University of California, Irvine, 1982-1990; medical director, University of California-Irvine-North Orange County Community Clinic, Anaheim, 1982-1990; professor, director division community medicine, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, since 1997. Regional representative, national secretary board directors Physicians for National Health Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989-1991. Consultant documentary Health Care Across theBorder, National Public television, New York City, 1989-1990, documentary on United States health care system National television Austria, 1991.

Consultant British Broadcasting Corporation, 1992, Pew Health Professions Commission, 1992-1994, Association American Medical Colls., 1992-1993, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1992, Research and Training Group in Social Medicine, Santiago, Chile, since 1990, Eisenhower Rural Health Centers, Idyllwild, California, 1995-1996. Lecturer medical sociology U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977. Visiting professor Northwestern University, 1994, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1994, U. Washington, 1996, U. New Mexico, 1996, U. Kentucky, 1996, U. Guadalajara, 1997, Simon Fraser U., 1997.

Member expert panel on communications with elderly patients National Institute Aging, 1997.

Achievements

• Howard Bruce Waitzkin has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, sociologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

    (Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a...)

  • Exploitation of Illness in Capitalist Society (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology)

    (Book by Waitzkin, Howard)

  • By Howard Waitzkin - Exploitation of Illness in Capitalist Society (The Bobbs-Merrill (1974-09-16) Paperback
  • Exploitation of Illness in Capitalist Society (The Bobbs-Merrill studies in sociology) by Howard Waitzkin (1974-09-03)
  • The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care by Howard Waitzkin (2000-02-09)

Membership

Cons. on health policy Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, 1988. Board directors, member commission on litigation Orange County Public Law Center, 1990-1996. Fellow American College of Physicians, American Academy Physician and Patient.

Member APHA, American Sociological Association (national county-at-large medical sociology section 1989-1992, coordinator resolution process concerning national health program 1990-1991, Leo G. Reeder award for distinguished career in medicine and social science 1997), Society Gen.Internal Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• Avocations: music, athletics, gardening, mountain hiking.

Connections

Married Stephany Borges, March 13, 1983 (divorced). 1 stepchild, Daren; 1 child, Sofia.

Father:

Edward Waitzkin

Mother:

Dorothy (Lederman) Waitzkin

Spouse:

Stephany Borges

child:

Sofia Waitzkin