Background
Javitt, Norman B. was born on March 9, 1928 in New York City. Son of Bernard and Zara (Hillman) Jakubovitz.
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Norman B. Javitt
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AB cum laude, Syracuse University, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology, U. North Carolina, 1951; Doctor of Medicine, Duke U., 1954.
Career
Predoctoral fellow, United States Public Health Service, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1949-1951;
intern, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1954-1955;
assistant resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1957-1958;
chief resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1959-1960;
Sara Welt fellow in medicine, special United States Public Health Service, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1961-1962;
assistant physician, advanced fellow American Heart Association, Vanderbilt Clinic, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 1957-1958;
instructor department medicine, New York University School Medicine, 1962-1964;
assistant professor, New York University School Medicine, 1964-1968;
associate professor, Cornell U.Med. College, New York City, 1968-1973;
professor, Cornell U.Med. College, New York City, 1973-1983;
associate attending physician, New York Hospital, New York City, 1968-1973;
attending physician, New York Hospital, New York City, 1973-1983;
professor medicine, professor pediatrics, New York University Medical Center, New York City, since 1983;
director division hepatic diseases, New York University Medical Center, New York City, since 1983;
associate director clinical research unit, New York University Medical Center, New York City, 1985-1990.
Consultant Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, 1970-1983. Visiting professor Rockefeller U. Hospital, 1970-1976. Consultant medicine Veterans Administration Hospital., Brooklyn, 1977-1983.
Chief division gastroenterology Cornell-New York Hospital Medical Center, 1973-1981, chief division hepatic diseases, acting chief division gastroenterology, 1981-1983. Consultant Tisch Hospital, New York University Medical Center, since 1983. Member training grantstudy section National Institute Arthritis, Metabolic & Digestive Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 1978-1985.
Member steering committee National Cooperative Gallstone Study, 1973-1980, chairman clinical management committee, 1974-1978. General medicine study Section A, National Institutes of Health, 1976-1980.
Achievements
Membership
Captain, Medical Corps, United States Army, 1955-1957. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Physiological Society, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Association Study of Liver Disease, American Gastroenterol.
Association, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, American Society Biological Chemists, American Pediatric Society, American Society Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Harvey Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Married Suzanne Markovits, June 5, 1955. Children: Jonathan Chaim, Daniel Coleman, Joel Israel, Gail Hannah.
