Irving F. Kanner

Background

Kanner, Irving F. was born on February 18, 1913 in New York City. Son of Samuel and Rosalind (Rosenbaum) Kanner.

Education

Student of University Southern California, 1929-1930. Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, Syracuse University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine Case Western Reserve University, 1937.

Career

Intern Cleveland Metropolitan Hospital, 1937-1938. Resident United States Public Health Service Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, 1938. Practice medicine, specializing in internal medicine Lexington, 1938-1969.

Professor medicine, director ambulant section U. Kentucky, Lexington, 1969-1974.

Secretary, Fayette County Medical Society Foundation, Incorporated., 1967-1974. Consultant committee office practice and management American Society Internal Medicine, 1971-1974.

Chairman health subcommittee Mayor’s Committee Improvement Greater Lexington, 1966-1969. Secretary Kentucky Diabetes Association, 1970-1972, Second vice president, 1972-1973 Board of directors Hunter Foundation, 1970-1974.

Achievements

• Irving F. Kanner has been listed as a noteworthy educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served lieutenant colonel Army of the United States, 1940-1946. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member Kentucky (president 1973-1974), American societies internal medicine, International Society Internal Medicine, American Heart Association, Kentucky Thoracic Society, Fayette County Medical Society (president 1966), Kentucky Medical Association, American Medical Association.

Club: Torch.

Connections

Married Esther Levy, October 17, 1938. Children: Linda Jean (Mistress David Turner Phillips), Mary Helen.

Father:

Samuel Kanner

Mother:

Rosalind (Rosenbaum) Kanner

Spouse:

Esther Levy

child:

Linda Jean Kanner (Mistress David Turner Phillips)

child:

Mary Helen Kanner