Klaus Mayer

Background

Mayer, Klaus was born on May 21, 1924 in Mainz, Germany. Came to the United States 1934. Son of Stephan Karl Mayer and Caecilie Mueller.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Queens College, 1945. Doctor of Medicine, University Zurich and Groningen, The Netherlands, 1950.

Career

Intern in medicine Hospital St. Raphael, New Haven, 1950-1951. Resident in medicine Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York City, 1952-1955, special fellow in medicine, 1955-1956. Clinical assistant department medicine Memorial Hospital, 1951-1960.

Attending hematologist Hospital for Special Surgery, 1957—2005, director blood bank, 1958—2005, honorary staff, since 2005. Director blood bank and serology laboratory department medicine Memorial Hospital, 1966-1993, director hematology laboratories department medicine, 1971—2005, attending physician, 1972—2005. Attending hematologist Manhattan Electronic Engineering Technology Hospital, 1977—1993.

Professor clinical medicine Weil College Medicine, Cornell University, 1997—2005, professor emeritus, since 2005. Clinical associate professor medicine Cornell University Medical College, New York City, 1968-1979, professor clinical medicine, since 1979. Director bone marrow laboratory Memorial Hospital, since 1990.

Professor emeritus chemical medicine, since 2005. Research fellow division clinical investigation Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York City, 1954-1958, research associate section cancer anemia, 1958-1959, assistant, 1959-1960, associate, 1960-1981, assistant member, 1981-1984. Research hematologist Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, 1958-1962.

Physician to out-patients department medicine New York Hospital, New York City, 1958-1968. Assistant visiting physician department James Ewing Hospital, New York City, 1959-1964, associate visiting physician, 1964-1968. Assistant visiting physician Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1960-1964, associate visiting physician, 1964-1972.

Assistant visiting physician Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1962-1968. Senior scientist Hospital for Special Surgery, New York City, 1963-1986. Research collaborator Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York City, 1965-1966.

Associate attending physician department medicine New York Hospital, New York City, 1968-1979. Associate chairman clinical laboratories department medicine Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1981-1993, associate chairman department medicine. Clinical member Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, since 1984.

Achievements

• Klaus Mayer has been listed as a noteworthy hematologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

With United States Army, 1943-1946. Colonel United States Public Health Service, 1955-1980. Colonel Medical Corps, United States Army Reserve, 1980-1986.

Fellow American College of Physicians, American Society Clinical Pathologists, New York Academy Medicine. Member American Medical Association, International Society Hematology, International Society Blood Transfusions, American Association Blood Banks (Distinguished Service award 1976), American College Nuclear Physicians, American Federation for Clinical Research, American Society Hematology, American Association Blood Banks (president 1973-1974), New York State Medical Society, New York County Medical Society, New York Society for Study of Blood, Society for Nuclear Medicine, The Harvey Society.

Connections

Married Vera Strasser, May 6, 1950. Children: Rulon, Carla Glasser.

Father:

Stephan Karl Mayer

Mother:

Caecilie Mueller

Spouse:

Vera Strasser

child:

Rulon Mayer

child:

Carla Glasser Mayer