Background
Helpern, Joseph Alexander was born on September 16, 1955 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Maurice Milton and Jacqueline Helpern.
Helpern, Joseph Alexander was born on September 16, 1955 in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Maurice Milton and Jacqueline Helpern.
Bachelor in Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 1977. Master of Arts in Chemistry, University North Carolina, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1988.
Senior research associate Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1979-1981. Research coordinator Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1981-1983, assistant staff investigator, 1984-1988, senior staff investigator, 1988-1994, director Nuclear magnetic resonance research, 1988-1994. Head Center for Advanced Brain Imaging The National Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, since 1994, chief Division of Medical Physics, since 1994.
Research professor psychiatry New York University Medical Center, New York City, since 1994. Lecturer department chemistry Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1989-1990, adjunct assistant professor medical physics, 1988-1993, adjunct associate professor medical physics, 1993-1994. Consultant National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, since 1989.
Member research peer review committee American Heart Association, Detroit, 1990-1993. Nuclear magnetic resonance consultant Nathan Kline Institute, 1988-1993, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990, Ohio State University, 1991, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada, 1992, Wyeth-Ayerst Research, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1993, United States Department Energy, Washington, since 1994. Lecturer in field.
President Board Education, Clarkston (Michigan) Schools, 1992-1994, trustee, 1991-1992. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Stroke Council of America Heart Association, American Association Physicists in Medicine, Society of Magnetic Resonance, New York Academy of Sciences, Biophysics Society, Sigma Xi.
Married Mary Jude Morrissey, November 28, 1980. Children: Joseph Austin, Jacqueline Rose, Natalie Elizabeth.