Monroe Karetzky

Background

Karetzky, Monroe was born on August 19, 1938 in Brooklyn. Son of Alexander and Florence (Steinberg) Karetzky.

Education

AB, Cornell Univercity, 1959; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1963.

Career

Cardiopulmonary research fellow, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York, 1965-1967; pulmonary physician, Lackland Air Force Base Wilford Hall Hospital, San Antonio, 1967-1968; research physician, School Aerospace Medicine, San Antonio, 1968-1969; assistant professor medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., 1970-1972; assistant professor medicine, Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, New York, 1972-1974; associate professor medicine and physiology, Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1974-1976; associate professor medicine, U. Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School, Newark, since 1976. Director pulmonary division Morrisania Hospital, Bronx, 1972-1974, Middlesex Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1974-1976. Director pulmonary critical care Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, since 1976, assistant director medicine, since 1976.

Associate director pulmonary division U. Medicine & Dentistry New Jersey, since 1976, associate director critical care division, since 1988.

Achievements

• Monroe Karetzky has been listed as a noteworthy researcher, physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Captain United States Air Force, 1967-1969. Fellow American College Physicians, American College Chest Physicians, American College Angiology, New Jersey Academy Medicine. Member American College Cardiology, American ThoracicSoc., Society Critical Care Medicine.

Connections

Married Patricia Eichenbaum, December 15, 1971. Children: Laura, Alexandra, Evan, Alexis.

Father:

Alexander Karetzky

Mother:

Florence (Steinberg) Karetzky

Spouse:

Patricia Eichenbaum

child:

Laura Karetzky

child:

Alexandra Karetzky

child:

Alexis Karetzky

child:

Evan Karetzky