Jerome Sanford Tobis

Background

Tobis, Jerome Sanford was born on July 23, 1915 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of David George and Anna (Feinberg) Tobis.

Education

Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Chicago Medical School, 1943.

Career

Intern, Knickerbocker Hospital, 1943-1944; resident, Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital., 1946-1948; medical director state fever therapy unit, United States Public Health Service, Brookhaven, Mississippi, 1944-1946; practice medicine, New York City, 1948-1970; professor director department physical medicine and rehabilitation, New York Medical College, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, 1948-1961; professor rehabilitation medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1963-1970; chief division rehabilitation medicine, Montefiore Hospital, 1961-1970; director visiting physician, Metropolitan, Bird S. Coler hospitals, 1952-1961; professor, department chairman physical medicine and rehabilitation, California College Medicine, University of California at Irvine, 1970-1982; professor, director program in geriatric medicine and gerontology, California College Medicine, University of California at Irvine, 1980-1986; member of advisory committee Academy Geriatric Resource program, 1984-1986, 95-. Member expert medical committee American Rehabilitation Foundation, 1961-1970. Consultant Department Health, New York City, Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital., since 1970, Fairview State Development Center, since 1976.

Member of advisory county physical medicine and rehabilitation for appeals committee California Medical Association, 1971-1974, advising committee University of California Academy Geriatric Resource Program, since 1995. National Institutes of Health International Fogarty fellow, honorary lecturer, department geriatric medicine U. Birmingham, 1979-1980. Chair ethics committee University of California-Irvine Medical Center, since 1986.

Member review panel musculoskeletal diseases National Institutes of Health, 1996. Research professor department physical medicine & rehabilitation University of California, Irvine, since 1986, chair medical ethics committee, since 1986. Member Center Health Policy Research University of California, Davis, since 1996.

Achievements

• Jerome Sanford Tobis has been listed as a noteworthy Physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Cardiology, American Congress Rehabilitation Medicine (honorary). Member American Medical Association (member residency review committee Council Medical Education 1973), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Cerebral Palsy, American Academy Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Distinguished Clinician award 1993), American Congress Rehabilitation Medicine (president 1962), California Council Gerontology and Geriatrics (board directors 1980-1986, president 1985), New York Academy Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, Orange County Medical Society, Association University California Irvine (chair emeritae/i 1996-1997).

Connections

Married Hazel Weisbard, September 18, 1938. Children: David, Heather, Jonathan.

Father:

David George Tobis

Mother:

Anna (Feinberg) Tobis

Spouse:

Hazel Weisbard

child:

Jonathan Tobis

child:

Heather Tobis

child:

David Tobis