Background
Deuschle, Kurt Walter was born on March 14, 1923 in Kongen, Germany. Son of John and Marie (Schaefer) Deuschle. came to the United States, 1924, naturalized, 1949.
Deuschle, Kurt Walter was born on March 14, 1923 in Kongen, Germany. Son of John and Marie (Schaefer) Deuschle. came to the United States, 1924, naturalized, 1949.
Bachelor of Science cum laude, Kent State University, 1944; Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan, 1948.
Intern, Colorado General Hospital, Denver, 1948-1949;
resident medicine, fellow oncology, Upstate Medical Center State University of New York, Syracuse, 1950-1952;
resident, United States.P.H.S. Navajo Indian Reservation, Fort Defiance, Arizona, 1953;
instructor medicine, Upstate Medical Center State University of New York, Syracuse, 1954-1955;
assistant professor public health and preventive medicine, Cornell Medical College, 1955-1960;
professor, department chairman community medicine, U. Kentucky, 1960-1968;
Ethel H. Wise professor, chairman and director department community medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, 1968-1990;
professor emeritus, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, since 1990;
professor emeritus, distinguished service professor, Mount Sinai Hospital, since 1993;
Ethel H. Wise chairman emeritus, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, since 1993;
Distinguished Svc. professor department community medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY, since 1993. Merrimon lecturer U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975. Member New York City Board Health, 1982-1989.
Visiting professor U. Lagos, Nigeria, 1977, Chinese Medical Association, People's Republic China, 1986. Member technical board Milbank Memorial Fund. Member Tuberculosis control advising committee Center Disease Control Department Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Consultant manpower intelligence National Institutes of Health. Member Institute Medicine of National Academy Sciences, Washington. Member rural health systems delegate to China, 1978.
Member National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council National Institutes of Health, 1982-1986. Senior advisor Report of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, The Guide to Clinical Preventive Servcies, Department of Health and Human Services, 1989. Member committee public health New York Academy of Medicine, since 1983, New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education, since 1987, advising committee American Ba.
Family Practice, since 1986.
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Preventive Medicine (past president, Distinguished Svc.award 1975). Member American Public Health Association (award for excellence in domestic health 1975), American Thoracic Society, International Epidemiological Association, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Jeanne Magagna, 1975. Children by previous marriage– Kurt J., Sally, James.
