Murray Jonathan Sanders

Background

Sanders, Murray Jonathan was born on April 11, 1910 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Louis and Rose (Gould) Sanders.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Tufts College, 1931. Student (scholar), Heidelberg University, Germany, 1929. Doctor of Medicine, University Chicago, 1936.

Career

Assistant, Office Coroner Cook County, Chicago, 1936; assistant pathology, University of Chicago Rush Medical College, 1936; rotating intern, Evanston (Illinois) General Hospital, 1936-1938; Oliver Rea scholar, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, New York City, 1938-1940; instructor bacteriology, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1940-1941; assistant professor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1941-1945; associate professor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1945-1947; professor bacteriology, U. Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1948-1952; research professor, director department microbiology, U. Miami, South Miami, Florida, 1952-1960; medical director, vice president, Pan American Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1960-1962; founder, medical director, Sanders Medical Research Foundation, Delray Beach, Florida, 1971-1987. Consultant pathology New York City Department Hospital, Harlem Hospital, New York City, 1947-1987. Consultant Biogenix, Inc., 1980-1987.

Director research Variety Children's Hospital, Miami, 1952-1953. Consultant National Children's Cardiac Hospital, Miami, 1950-1955, Blood Plasma Corporation Japan, Osaka, 1950-1987. Honorary medical staff, consultant Guam Memorial Hospital, Agana, 1950-1957.

Department chairman biological science Florida Atlantic U., 1962-1965. Medical director, vice president Gray Industries, Inc., Gray Research Foundation.

Achievements

• Murray Jonathan Sanders has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, medical research institute executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Palm Beach Atlantic College Served from major to lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps Army of the United States, 1940-1946. Staff officer General MacArthur 1944-1945. Consultant Secretary of War, also member commission neurotropic virus disease Board Investigation and Control Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in Army 1942-1946.

Fellow Royal Society Health (England), American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences (life), New York Academy Medicine. Member American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American, Florida public health associations, American Federation Clinical Research, Society of America Bacteriologists, International Society Transfusion, American Association Blood Banks, Tissue Culture Association, Southern Medical Association, Florida Academy of Sciences, Sociedad Cubana de Salubridad Publica (correspondent), Retired Officers Association, Sigma Xi. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).

Connections

Son of; married Margaret Weatherly, December 19, 1959. Children– Frank Weatherly, Andrea Joan, Murray Jonathan.

Father:

Louis Son

Mother:

Rose (Gould) Son

Spouse:

Margaret Weatherly

child:

Andrea Joan Sanders

child:

Murray Jonathan Sanders

child:

Frank Weatherly Sanders