Background

Barach, Joseph H. was born in 1883 in Calvary, Poland-Russia. Son of Zorach and Deborah (Oppenheim) Barach.

Education

Came to the United States, 1888, citizenship derived from father. Student Park Institute, 1895-1899. Doctor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh, 1903.

Post graduate student, Columbia, 1903.

Career

Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1904. Associate Professor medicine U. Pittsburgh, also medical director U. Clins. School Medicine, since 1930.

Senior staff medical center hospitals since 1910.

Consultant department health Carnegie Institute Technology, Pittsburgh, 1910. Consultant in medicine, Sewickley (Pennsylvania) Valley Hospital, since 1925.

Chairman metabolism and endocrinology section, research grants division United States.P.H.S., 1946-1951, national council arthritis and metabolism section, research grants division since 1952.

Achievements

• Joseph H. Barach has been listed as a noteworthy physician, research medicine by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as captain medical corporations, World War I. Member of council 1941, president, 1944-1946, chairman of the section on metabolic and endocrine diseases, et cetera Member Congregation Rodef Shalom, Pittsburgh.

Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).

Connections

Married Edna South. Levy, September 21, 1915. Children: Joseph L., Richard L. Resident pathologist and interne West Pennsylvania.

Father:

Zorach Barach

Mother:

Deborah (Oppenheim) Barach

Spouse:

Edna South. Levy

child:

Joseph L. Barach

child:

Richard L. Resident pathologist and interne West Pa Barach