Paul Didisheim

Background

Didisheim, Paul was born on June 3, 1927 in Paris.

Education

AB, Princeton University, 1950; Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1954.

Career

Intern in medicine, Duke U.-Durham (North Carolina) Veterans Administration Hospital., Durham, 1954-1955; instructor, then assistant professor, chief coagulation laboratory, U. Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, 1958-1965; director thrombosis research laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1965-1986; director hemostasis laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 1974-1986; head biomaterials program bioengineering research group, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1986-1997; founder tissue engineering program, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1997; independent consultant, since 1998. Associate physician, attending in internal medicine Salt Lake County General Hospital, 1958-1965. Assistant professor experimental pathology Mayo Graduate School Medicine, University of Minnesota, Rochester, 1966-1970, associate professor clinical pathology, 1970-1973.

Associate professor laboratory medicine Mayo Medical School, Rochester, 1973-1975, professor, 1975-1986. Member medical advisory board Utah and Intermountain chapters National Hemophilia Foundation, 1959-1965, member medical and science advisory county, 1964-1977. Member research advising committee American Red Cross, 1967-1973.

Founder, 1st chairman subcommittee on blood materials interactions International Committee on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 1982-1985. Member surgery and bioengineering study section National Institutes of Health, 1982-1986. Chairman.working group on biological evaluation medical devices International Studies Organisation, 1989-1997.

Head United States delegate to Conference Biological Evaluation Medical Devices, 1990-1997. Visiting professor U. Paris XIII, 1992.

Achievements

• Paul Didisheim has been listed as a noteworthy Internist, hematologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

President, Unitarian Universalist Church, Rochester, Minnesota, 1982-1984. With United States Navy, 1945-1946. Fellow American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (founding).

Member American Federation Clinical Research, American Physiological Society, American Society Artificial Internal Organs, American Society Hematology, American Society Investigative Pathology, Control Society Clinical Research, International Society Hematology, International Society Thrombosis andHaemostasis (charter, international advising committee 1980-1986), Society for Biomaterials (liaison committee 1987-1990, liaison to commission on standard reference materials 1992-1997), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Association Advancement Medical Instrumentation (committee for biological testing medical and dental materials and devices 1989-1997), Argentine Medical Association (honorary correspondent), Sigma Xi.

Connections

M. Ricarda Elizabeth Jahrreiss, September 14, 1952. Children: Melinda, Peter, Andrea.

child:

Melinda Didisheim

child:

Peter Didisheim

child:

Andrea Didisheim