Background
Adler, Jack Joseph was born on November 26, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Irving C. and Helen (Heda) Adler.
Adler, Jack Joseph was born on November 26, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Irving C. and Helen (Heda) Adler.
Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1959; Doctor of Medicine, University of Chicago, 1962; Master of Science, U. Oklahoma, 1965.
Intern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1962-1963;
resident in preventive medicine public health, U. Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City, 1963-1965;
resident in internal medicine, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1965-1967;
resident in chest medicine, Bronx (New York) Municipal Hospital Center, 1967-1968;
chief resident in chest medicine, Bronx (New York) Municipal Hospital Center, 1968;
associate director department medicine, Lincoln Hospital, 1968-1971;
chief pulmonary medicine, attending physician department medicine, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, 1971-1988;
associate attending physician, Mount Sinai Hospital, since 1987;
assistant department medicine, Chicago Medical School, 1966-1967;
associate department medicine, assistant professor, Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1968-1971;
assistant professor clinical medicine, Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1971-1979;
associate professor clinical medicine, Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, 1979-1988;
associate clinical professor medicine, Mount Sinai School Medicine, since 1988. Chairman research and publication committee Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, 1974-1981. President AHB Pulmonary Associations, since 1977.
Adjunct Professor, medical director respiratory therapy program Long Island (New York) U., 1978-1985. Medical director New York City Department Health, bureau of Tuberculosis Control, 1988-1992. Consultant in pulmonary medicine The Jewish Home for the Aged, New York, since 1990.
Member infection control committee Mount Sinai Hospital Task Force on Tuberculosis, 1990. Director Independent Practice Associations, Mount Sinai Medical Center, since 1991. Director Tuberculosis Elimination Program, since 1992.
With United States Public Health Service, 1963-1965. Fellow American College Physicians, American College Chest Physicians (member county on critical care), New York Academy of Medicine. Member American Thoracic Society, New York Lung Association (board directors since 1971, president 1981-1983), New York Trudeau Society (president 1980), Society Critical Care Medicine, National Association Medical Dirs. of Respiratory Care, New York State Society Medicine, Kings County Medical Society.
Married Judith Spiegler, June 14, 1959. Children: Matthew, Sharon, Anna, Danielle.