Morris Aaron Kaplan

Background

Kaplan, Morris Aaron was born on April 5, 1907 in Brooklyn. Son of David and Eva (Erenberg) Kaplan.

Education

Student Crane Junior College and Lewis Institute, 1924-1927. Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1929, Master of Science (Sigma Xi prize for undergraduate research), 1931, Doctor of Medicine 1932, graduate study, 1931-1941, National Naval Medical School, 1943-1944.

Career

Intern, Cook County Hospital, 1931-1933. Private practice, specialist in allergy, Chicago, 1933-1977. Instructor physiological chemistry college medicine University of Illinois, 1929-1931, assistant medicine, 1933-1937, instructor, 1937-1941, associate, 1941-1946, clinical associate, 1946-1950, lecturer allergy, department physiological chemistry, 1933-1950, consultant allergy, department pediatrics, 1946-1950, instructor post-graduate clinical allergy, 1946-1950, attending physician allergy clinics Research and Ednl.

Hospital, 1933-1950, chief allergy clinics, 1946-1950.

Assistant attending physician Michael Reese Hospital, 1946-1952, attending physician allergy Mandel Clinic, 1946-1952, lecturer allergy Nurses Training School, 1946-1952. Instructor allergy postgraduate instruction course American College Allergists, 1948, 51, 53-58.

Director allergy research unit Chicago Medical school and Mount Sinai Research Foundation, 1954-1973, also clinical professor medicine, 1971-1977. Research associate professor division enzymology and experimental hypersenitivity Chicago Medical School, clinical professor biochemistry, 1969-1977.

Clinical professor biochemistry Graduate School, Chicago Medical School, U. Health Sciences, 1969-1977.

Attending physician Mount Sinai Hospital, 1953-1973, Weiss Memorial Hospital, 1955-1977, Saint Joseph Hospital, 1975. Allergy consultant Chicago Board Education. Regional consultant allergy National Jewish Home for Asthmatic Children, Denver, 1951-1977.

Member of staff Franklin Boulevard Hospital, 1946-1977, Roosevelt Memorial Hospital, 1966-1977.

Consultant Asthmatic Children’s Foundation President, Illinois Foundation for Asthma. Director Peterson Bank, Chicago Board Directors

Illinois Foundation Asthma. Board directors Chicago chapter American Foundation for Allergic Diseases.

Member medical advisory board Asthmatic Children’s Aid.

Board directors Allergy Foundation American.

Achievements

• Morris Aaron Kaplan has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served from Lieutenant to lieutenant commander Medical Corps, United States Naval Reserve, World World World War World War II Fellow American College Allergists (past president Member American Association Immunology, Association American Medical College, American Medical Association, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Federation Clinical Research, Association Allergists Mycological Investigation, Chicago Society Allergy (secretary-treasurer 1947, president 1949, Executive Committee 1949-1977), Illinois State (chairman of the section allergy), Chicago medical societies, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy Science, International Corresponding Society Allergy, Illinois Academy Science, Asthma and Allergy Federation Greater Chicago (director), American, Chicago associations immunologists, Royal Society Medicine (London, England.), Sigma Xi, Phi Delta Epsilon.

Member B’nai B’rith.

Connections

Married Celia South. Furlett, December 27, 1931.

Father:

David Kaplan

Mother:

Eva (Erenberg) Kaplan

Spouse:

Celia South. Furlett