Background
Baum, John was born on June 2, 1927 in New York City. Son of Louis Israel and Lilian (Treitman) Baum.
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John Baum
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Bachelor, New York University, 1949; Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1954.
Career
Intern, Baltimore City Hospital, 1954-1955;
resident in medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1955-1956;
resident in medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital., New York City, 1956-1957;
National Institutes of Health clinical trainee, New York University-Bellevue Hospital, 1957-1958;
National Institutes of Health research fellow, Rheumatism Research Unit, Taplow, England, 1958-1959;
assistant professor medicine, University Texas Southwestern Medical School, 1962-1968;
director arthritis clinic, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, 1959-1968;
director medical clinics, Parkland Memorial Hospital, 1965-1967;
co-director pediatric arthritis clinic, Scottish Rite Hospital, Dallas, 1960-1968;
member of faculty, U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, since 1968;
professor medicine pediatrics and rehabilitation, U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, 1972-1993;
professor medicine emeritus, U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, since 1993;
chairman research subjects review board, U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, 1987-1996;
professor orthpedics (rehabilitation), U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, 1991-1993;
professor pediatrics, U. Rochester (New York) Medical School, since 1997. Visiting professor rheumatology, honorary senior research fellow U. Birmingham, England, 1988-1989. Visiting professor U. Kiev Medical School, 1995.
Director arthritis and clinical immunology unit Monroe Cmty. Hospital, 1968-1993; director pediatric arthritisclinic Strong Memorial Hospital, since 1970. Member drug efficacy panel National Research Council-NAS, 1960-1965.
Member research review board immunology VA, 1970-1976. Advisory panel United States Pharmacopeia, since 1975. Coordinator therapeutics United States-Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Program Rheumatology, since 1974.
Member test committee for rheumatology American Board Internal Medicine,1971-1976.
Achievements
Membership
Served with Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member American College Rheumatology (master 1993, county pediatrics rheumatology 1975-1980, 85-), Heberden Society, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Human Genetics, American Association Immunologists, Reticuloendothelial Society, Southern Society Clinical Investigation, Texas Rheumatism Association, British Society Rheumatology, Midlands Rheumatology Society (England), Polish Rheumatol. Society (honorary), La Foundation Rheum Argentina (Doctor Oswaldo Carcia Morteo international science committee since 1997), Great Lakes Interurban Club, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Erna Rose Bailis, January 28, 1950. Children: Nina, Jane, Carl, Antonia, Theodore.
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American