Background
Colsky, Jacob was born on December 5, 1921 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Abraham Samuel and Jennie (Shefsky) Colsky.
Colsky, Jacob was born on December 5, 1921 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Abraham Samuel and Jennie (Shefsky) Colsky.
Student, Memphis State College, 1940. Doctor of Medicine, University Tennessee, 1944.
Intern, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, 1944-1945;
fellow, then instructor preventative medicine, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, 1947-1951;
acting assistant chief clinical research unit, National Cancer Institute, Baltimore, 1950-1951;
assistant chief, National Cancer Institute, Baltimore, 1951-1952;
assistant physician outpatients, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1947-1952;
associate director medicine, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, 1952-1957;
associate attending physician, Kings County Hospital Medical Center, 1955-1957;
from instructor to associate professor medicine, State University of New York Medical School, New York City, 1952-1957;
private practice, Miami, 1957-1982;
member of faculty, U. Miami Medical School, 1957-1982;
clinical professor medicine, U. Miami Medical School, 1973-1982;
professor oncology, U. Miami Medical School, 1975-1982. Member of staff Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital. Consultant Baptist Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital, Veterans Administration Hospital.
Director medical oncology section, department medicine U. Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital, 1960-1970. Chief medical oncology section Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, 1972-1982, chief medicine, 1977-1978. Senior investigator Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, 1960-1982, Executive Committee, 1971-1973.
President Medical Oncology and Chemotherapy Foundation, Miami, 1970-1973. Board directors Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute, 1969-1982.
Captain Army of the United States, 1945-1947. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine, American College of Physicians. Member of New York Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Federation Clinical Research, American Association Cancer Research, American Geriatrics Society, Leukemia Society (state board directors 1970-1982), American Cancer Society (county board directors 1968-1971), Florida Medical Society, International Society Lung Cancer (a founder), American Society Clinical Oncology (a founder).
Affiliate Royal Society Medicine.
Married Irene Vivian Belen, July 26, 1953. Children: Liane Caryl, Arthur Spencer, Andrew Evan.