Michael Boris Shimkin

Background

Shimkin, Michael Boris was born on October 7, 1912 in Tomsk, Siberia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Boris Michael and Lydia (Serebrova) Shimkin. came to the United States, 1923, naturalized, 1928.

Education

AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1933; Doctor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1937.

Career

Resident medicine, University Texas, 1937-1938; research fellow, Harvard, 1938-1939; officer, United States Public Health Service, 1939-1963; medical director, United States Public Health Service, 1950; with, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1939-1944, 46-63; chief biometry and epidemiology branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1954-1960; associate director field studies, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1960-1963; assistant chief, Office International Health, United States Public Health Service, 1945-1946; clinical professor oncology, chief laboratory experimental oncology, University of California School Medicine, San Francisco, 1947-1954; professor medicine, Temple University School Medicine, 1963-1969; assistant vice president research, Temple University School Medicine (Health Sciences Center), 1966-1969; chief cancer biology, (Fels Research), 1963-1969; professor community medicine and oncology, University of California, San Diego, 1969-1980; professor emeritus, University of California, 1980-1989. Associate dean for health manpower, 1970-1972. Coordinator regional medical program San Diego & Imperial Company, 1969-1973.

Advisor United States delegation World Health Organization constitution convention, 1945-1946, Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1943-1944. Medical officer United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944-1945. Public health officer G-5, 3rd Army, 1944-1945.

Adviser American Cancer Society.

Achievements

• Michael Boris Shimkin has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Contrary to Nature. Being an Illustrated Commentary on Some Persons and Events of Historical Importance in the Development of Knowledge Concerning Cancer
  • Contrary to nature: Being an illustrated commentary on some persons and events of historical importance in the development of knowledge concerning ... cancer (DHEW publication ; no)

Membership

Fellow American College of Physicians, American College Preventive Medicine. Member American Association Cancer Research (president 1973), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi. M C.

Connections

Married Mary Louisa North, July 2, 1938. Children– Peter Michael, Ann Mary Shimkin Segal, Philip North.

Father:

Boris Michael Shimkin

Mother:

Lydia (Serebrova) Shimkin

Spouse:

Mary Louisa North

child:

Ann Mary Shimkin Segal Shimkin

child:

Peter Michael Shimkin

child:

Philip North Shimkin