Background
Kurnick, Nathaniel Bertrand was born on November 8, 1917 in New York City. Son of Jacob Kurnick and Celia (Levine) Zackheim.
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Nathaniel Bertrand Kurnick
Edit Profileeducator researcher Oncologist-hematologist
Education
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1936; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1940.
Career
Intern Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1941-1942, chief resident internal medicine, 1946. Assistant professor medicine Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, 1949-1954. Chief hematology service Veterans Administration Hospital, Long Beach, California, 1954-1959, consultant, since 1959.
Associate clinical professor medicine University California, Los Angeles, 1954-1964, clinical professor medicine Irvine, 1964-1999. Private practice Long Beach, 1959-1983. Director Bixby Hematology-Oncology Laboratory Long Beach Community Medical Center, 1982—1999.
Chairman cancer activities, 1968—1990. Chairman department medicine, 1966—1968. Chairman department medical oncology and hematology, 1982—1987.
President Long Beach Society Internal Medicine, 1971. Chairman Franklin Bank of California, Orange, California, 1988—2004. Captain United States Army Medical Corps., 1942-1946, Pacific Ocean area.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Garden Grove, California Union High Sch.Dist., 1960-1964. Captain Medical Corps, United States Army, 1942-1946. Fellow American College of Physicians.
Member International Society Experimental Hematology, American Society Hematology, Western Society Clinical Research, Center Society Clinical Research, Sigma Xi (fellow 1951).
Interests
Connections
Married Dorothy Manheimer, October 4, 1940 (deceased December 1985). Children: John E., Katherine (deceased), James T. Married Sally Ann Kreeger, June 23, 1989.
Awards
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American Cancer Society/National Research Council fellow, 1946-1947, Rockefeller Institute, 1946-1947, Nobel Institute, 1947-1949. National Institutes of Health/American Cancer Society grantee, 1949-1972. Henry Hunter Workman research fellow Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, 1940-1941.American Cancer Society/National Research Council fellow, 1946-1947, Rockefeller Institute, 1946-1947, Nobel Institute, 1947-1949. National Institutes of Health/American Cancer Society grantee, 1949-1972. Henry Hunter Workman research fellow Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, 1940-1941.