Background
Karsner, Howard Thomas was born on January 6, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles W. (Doctor of Medicine and Martha M. (Wright) K.
Karsner, Howard Thomas was born on January 6, 1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles W. (Doctor of Medicine and Martha M. (Wright) K.
Bachelor of Science, Central High School, Philadelphia, 1897. Philadelphia School of Pedagogy, 1899. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1903.
Doctor of Laws, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1949.
July 5, 1950. Demonstrator pathology. University of Pannsylvania. 1908-1911; assistant professor pathology, Harvard Medical School, 1911-1914.
Professor pathology. Western Reserve University, 1914-1949. Medical research adviser to Bureau Medicine and Surgry. United States Navy, from 1949.
Director Institute Pathology, 1929-1949. Director Pathology, University Hosps. Division chief of labs., City Hospital, 1914-1949.
Consultant to Surgical General, United States of America.
Author: Human Pathology, 1926, 55. Editor Year Book of Pathology, 1941-1953. Contributor technical journals Chairman div. medical sciences, National Research Council.
1927-1928, Chairman of Commission on Pathology 1948-1958. Consultant in pathology, Army Air Forces. Army Medical Museum and Office Scientific Research and Development, 1943-1946.
Special consultant Secretary of War, 1946.
Member science advisory board Armed Forces Institute Pathology, advisory medical board Leonard Wood Memorial for Eradication Leprosy. Served as captain, Medical R.C., with American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-February 11, 1918. Fellow Aero. Medical Association (honorary).
New York Academy Sciences. Member National Board Medical Examiners (president 1951-1954). American Medical Association, Association American Physicians, American College Physicians.
American Society Experimental Pathol., International Society Geography Pathological (vice president, Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists Society Experimental Biology and Medical, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president Section N, 1931), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha: correspondent. Member various orgns. Republican; Club: Army and Navy.
Married Audrey W. Stanwood, December 11, 1912 (died 1944).; married 3d Jessie Spencer Beach, July 5, 1950.