Background
Austen, Karl Frank was born on March 14, 1928 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Karl and Bertle (Jehle) Austen.
Austen, Karl Frank was born on March 14, 1928 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Karl and Bertle (Jehle) Austen.
AB, Amherst College, 1950; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1954.
Intern in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1954-1955;
assistant resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1955-1956;
senior resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1958-1959;
chief resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1961;
assistant in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1962-1963;
assistant physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1963-1966;
chief pulmonary unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1964-1966;
also consultant in medicine. Practice medicine, specializing in internal medicine, allergy and immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1962-1966;
United States Public Health Service postdoctoral research fellow, National Institute Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, 1959-1961;
assistant in medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1961;
instructor, Harvard Medical School, 1961-1962;
associate in medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1962-1964;
assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, 1965-1966;
associate professor, Harvard Medical School, 1966-1968;
professor, Harvard Medical School, 1969-1972;
Theodore B. Bayles professor, Harvard Medical School, since 1972;
physician-in-chief, Robert B. Brigham Hospital, 1966-1980;
department chairman rheumatology and immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1980-1995;
director laboratory inflammation and allergic disease research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, since 1995. Member fellowship subcommittee Arthritis Foundation, 1968-1971, chairman, 1971.
Member county Infectious Disease Society American, 1969-1971. Member arthritis training grants committee National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1970-1973, NHLB advisory county, since 1994. Member directing group, task force on immunology and disease National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1972-1973.
Board directors Arthritis Foundation, 1972-1975, chairman manpower study committee, 1972-1973, chairman research committee Multipurpose Arth. Center, 1972-1976; chairman research committee Medical Foundation, Inc., 1972-1976. Member American Board Allergy and Immunology, 1973-1978, National Commision on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases, 1975-1976, Allergy and Immunology Research committee, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1975-1979, chairman, 1976-1979.
Chairman nomenclature committee International Union Immunological Socs., since 1983. Member of advisory commission to the director National Institutes of Health, 1986-1990, member national heart, lung and blood advisory county, 1966-1980.
Trustee Amherst College, since 1981. Served to captain, Medical Corps United States Army, 1956-1958. Member NAS (chairman of the section on medical microbiology and immunology 1983-1986), Institute Medicine, American Society Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Experimental Pathology, American Association Immunologists (president 1977-1978), British Society Immunology, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Rheumatism Association, American College of Physicians, Transplantation Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Association American Physicians (recorder 1978-1984, president 1989-1990), American Academy Allergy and Immunology (Executive Committee 1970-1972, secretary 1977-1980, president 1981), Interurban Clinical Club, Federation American Society Experimental Biology, International Association Allergology and Clinical Immunology, International Society Immunopharmacology (president 1994).
Married Joycelyn Chapman, April 11, 1959. Children: Leslie Marie, Karla Ann, Timothy Frank, Jonathan Arthur.