Background
Yaffee, Howard Stanley was born on October 14, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph Philip Yaffe and Mabel (Pill) Ecker.
Yaffee, Howard Stanley was born on October 14, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph Philip Yaffe and Mabel (Pill) Ecker.
AB, Syracuse University, 1947; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, 1951.
Intern, Yale University program Newington (Connecticut) Veterans Administration Hospital., New Haven hospitals, New Haven, 1951-1952;
assistant resident department dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1952-1953;
with, United States Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1953-1955;
assistant dermatology, teaching fellow, Northwestern University Hospitals, Chicago, 1955-1956;
senior resident, junior clinical instructor department dermatology, University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, 1956-1957;
private practice dermatology, Lexington, Massachusetts. Assistant dermatologist Beth Isrel Hospital, Boston, 1958-1960. Consultant Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1966.
Chief dermatology Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge,1974-1990, consultant since 1990. Associate clinical professor Boston University, 1972-1987. Assistant clinical professor Tufts U., Boston, since 1984, consultant dermatologist Harvard University Health Svc., Cambridge, since 1984.
Department chairman dermatology, Bay State Foundation, Boston, 1973.
Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1955. Member American Academy Dermatology (advisory board national program for dermatology 1973-1977), Massachusetts Academy Dermatology (founding, board directors 1973), New England Derm. Society (president 1981-1982), Toronto Ragtime Society, United States Ship Constitution (founding), Psi Chi, Tau Epsilon Phi.
Married Lois Rae Collard: children: Lisa Ellen, Lauren Elizabeth, John Barker, James Collard.