Background
Sokoloff, Leon was born on May 9, 1919 in Brooklyn. Son of Barnet and Ray (Cohen) Sokoloff.
Sokoloff, Leon was born on May 9, 1919 in Brooklyn. Son of Barnet and Ray (Cohen) Sokoloff.
Bachelor, New York University, 1938. Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1944. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1938—1939.
Resident Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1948—1952. Chief section on rheumatic diseases Laboratory Experimental Pathology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1953—1973. Professor pathology State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1973—1991, emeritus, since 1991.
Visiting professor Royal Society Medicine, England, 1985. Served to captain United States Public Health Service, 1953-1973.
Master: American College Rheumatology. Member: American Society Investigative Pathology, American College Veterinary Pathologists (honorary).
Married Barbara Snow, June 1950 (deceased 1960). Children: Michael D., Naomi B. Sokoloff Berry. Married Beverly Beinfeld Trachtenberg, July 18, 1971.