Louis Jacob Elsas II

Background

II, Louis Jacob Elsas was born on February 10, 1937 in Atlanta. Son of Herbert R. and Edith (Levy) E.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1958; Doctor of Medicine, University Virginia, 1962.

Career

Intern, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1962-1963; resident in internal medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1963-1965; National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow in medical genetics, Yale University, 1965-1968; from instructor to assistant professor section genetics, department medicine and pediatrics, Yale University, 1968-1970; member of faculty, Emory University Medical School, since 1970; professor pediatrics and biochemistry, Emory University Medical School, since 1977; director medical genetics, Emory University Medical School, since 1970. Director Georgia Comprehensive Genetic System, 1978. Visiting professor Japan Society Promotion of Science, 1976.

Professore a contratto, Italy, since 1985. United States advisor Congress of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, 1980.

Achievements

• Louis Jacob Elsas II has been listed as a noteworthy Medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Academy Pediat., American College Medical Genetics (founder). Member Society Inherited Metabolic Disorders (founding president), American Society Clinical Investigation, Society Pediat. Research, American Society Biological Chemistry, American Society Human Genetics, Association American Physicians, S.E. Genetics Group (chairman 1983-1994), Council Regional Networks (president since 1994), Sigma Xi (past chapter president).

Connections

Married Nancy Terrell, July 15, 1961. Children: Nancy Louise, Margaret Edith, Louis Jacob, III.

Father:

Herbert R. E.

Mother:

Edith (Levy) E.

Spouse:

Nancy Terrell

child:

Louis Jacob II

child:

Margaret Edith II

child:

III

child:

Nancy Louise II