Background
Cummings, Norman Allen was born on March 26, 1935 in New York City. Son of Maurice and Bertha (Daniels) Cummings.
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Norman Allen Cummings
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AB, New York University, 1955; Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1959.
Career
Intern in medicine, Jewish Hospital Brooklyn, 1959-1960;
resident in internal medicine, Jewish Hospital Brooklyn, 1960-1961;
resident in internal medicine, University Hospital-University of Michigan, 1961-1962;
fellow Rackham Arthritis Research Unit department biophysics, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1962-1964;
visiting fellow in rheumatology, New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, 1962;
research associate department medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1963-1964;
research associate laboratory biochemistry, National Cancer Institute-National Institutes of Health-United States Public Health Service, 1964-1966;
assistant professor medicine, Baylor University College Medicine, 1966-1967;
attending staff, Ben Taub and Houston VA Hospitals, 1966-1967;
medical officer, head connective tissue disease program, Oral Medicine and Surgery branch National Institute Dental Research-National Institutes of Health, 1967-1974;
director arthritis center, chief clinical immunology and connective tissue disease section, associate professor department medicine, U. Louisville, 1974-1978;
professor medicine, U. Louisville, 1974-1978;
clinical professor medicine, U. Louisville, since 1983;
member attending staff internal medicine, Louisville General Hospital (now named University Hospital), since 1974;
private practice rheumatology, Louisville, since 1983. Clinical research committee National Institute Dental Research, 1973-1974, consultant 1974. Consultant Jewish Hospital, Louisville, National Institutes of Health, Norton-Children's Hosp, 1974.
Chairman Baylor Medical Research Seminars. Member program committee National Arthritis Foundation, 1975. Member medical and science committee Kentucky chapter Arthritis Foundation, 1975.
Research contract review committee National Institute Dental Research-National Institutes of Health Laboratory Reorganization Committee, det.medicine U. Louisville School Medicine, 1977, curriculum committee department medicine, 1978, subcommittee graduate education department medicine, 1978, ad hoc committee merit review department medicine, 1978, dean's review committee for department chairman physiology and biophysics, 1979. Medical advisory board Lupus Foundation Kentuckiana, Inc., since 1980. Physical therapy committee Jewish Hospital, 1980.
Physical therapy com.St. Anthony's Medical Center, since 1985, department chairman medicine, Executive Committee, quality assessment committee, 1988-1990. Physical therapy committee Jewish Hospital, 1990.
Achievements
Membership
Exhibits subcommittee National Arthritis Foundation, 1980. Fellow American College of Physicians (founding, co-director medical knowledge self-assessment program V1980). Member American Rheumatism Association (exhibits committee), Rheumatism Society District of Columbia (medical advising committee 1971-1974, chairman subcommittee clinic site visits 1972, chairman membership committee 1971-1972), Kentucky Medical Association, Jefferson County Medical Society, Louisville Society Internists, University Michigan Research Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
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Married Elaine Gaffin, September 11, 1960;children: Marshall Bruce, Lisa Ellen.
