Background
Kerstein, Morris Daniel was born on January 13, 1938 in Trenton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Rubin and Minnie (Fischer) Kerstein.
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Morris Daniel Kerstein
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AB, Colgate University, 1959; Doctor of Medicine, Chicago Medical School, 1963.
Career
Intern First (Tufts) Surgical Svc., Boston City Hospital, 1963-1964;
junior assistant resident, Boston City Hospital, 1964-1965;
senior assistant resident, Boston City Hospital, 1967-1968;
resident, Boston City Hospital, 1969-1970;
chief resident, Boston City Hospital, 1970-1971;
research associate, clinical teaching assistant department surgery, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Göteborg (Sweden) Hospital, 1968-1969;
instructor department surgery, Tufts U., Boston, 1970-1971;
assistant professor department surgery, Yale University, New Haven, 1971-1977;
associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1977;
associate professor Pritzker School Medicine, University of Chicago, 1977-1979;
professor department surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1979-1990;
associate dean academic affairs, director postgraduate and graduate programs, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1986-1989;
clinical professor departments surgery and military medicine, Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, since 1983;
Louis and Helen Sizeler Chair in Vascular Surgery, Hahnemann U., Philadelphia, 1989-1990;
Edgar J. Deissler Professor Surgery, Hahnemann U., Philadelphia, 1990-1995;
department chairman surgery, Hahnemann U., Philadelphia, 1990-1994. Staff surgeon Veterans Administration Hospital., West Haven, Connecticut, 1971-1977, chief peripheral vascular surgery, 1974-1977. Attending surgeon Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, 1977-1979, director blood flow laboratory, 1977-1979, chief peripheral vascular surgery, 1977-1979.
Attending surgeon Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1971-1977, Billings Hospital University of Chicago, 1977-1979, Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital, Independence, Louisiana, 1979-1987, Huey P. Long Memorial Center, Pineville, Louisiana, 1979-1990, VA Medical Center, Alexandria, Louisiana, 1979-1990, Touro Hospital, New Orleans, 1979-1990, Charity Hospital Louisiana, New Orleans, 1979-1990, Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, 1981-1990, Mercy Hospital, New Orleans, 1982-1989, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, since 1990. Attending surgeon Tulane Medical Center Hospital and Clinic, New Orleans, 1979-1990, director blood flow laboratory, 1979-1990.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Louisiana chapter American Heart Association, 1987-1991, county on cardiovascularsurgery, county on arteriosclerosis, stroke county, county on thrombosis. Board directors Louisiana division American Cancer Society, 1982-1985, public education committee, 1982-1985. Board directors Friends of Charity Hospital, 1988-1990.
Distinguished practitioner in medicine National Acads. Practice, 1989. With United States Navy, 1965-1967, Vietnam, rear admiral United States Naval Reserve, since 1989. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American Academy Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American Association Society of Trauma, American College Surgeons (chairman surgical association Louisiana), American Federation Clinical Research, American Surgical Association, Association Military Surgeons of the United States (Executive Committee since 1989, research guard planning committee since 1989, member committee, since 1990), Chicago Surgical Society, Collegium International Chirurgiae Digestivae, European Society Vascular Surgery, New York Academy Sciences, Pennsylvania State Medical Society, Shock Society, Society Surgical Chairman, Society University Surgeons, Southern Medical Association, Sigma Xi, AlphaOmega Alpha, others.
Connections
Married Margaret Schwedler. 1 child, Lars Rubin.
