Background
Spear, Paul William was born on November 3, 1908 in Baltimore. Son of Sidney Paul and Edna (Lauer) Spear.
Spear, Paul William was born on November 3, 1908 in Baltimore. Son of Sidney Paul and Edna (Lauer) Spear.
Bachelor, Johns Hopkins University, 1930. Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1934.
Intern medicine, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1934-1935; assistant resident, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1935-1936; chief resident, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, 1936-1937; assistant chief and chief of medicine, VA, Brooklyn, 1947-1963; director medicine, Morrisania-Montefiore Affiliation, Bronx, New York, 1963-1976; medical director, Queens (New York) County Professional Standards Review Organisation, 1977-1985; medical director, Queens County division Island Peer Review Organisation, 1984-1986; attending physician, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, since 1963; professor medicine emeritus, Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, since 1976.
Lieutenant colonel United States Army, 1941-1945. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Society Hematology, New York Academy of Medicine, American Federation for Clinical Research, New York Society for the Study of Blood, Physicians Forum (president 1971-1972), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Belle Kazan, June 30, 1944 (deceased December 1972). Children: Susan, Margaret Ellen, Michael Lauer. Married Belle Kasofsky Ripps, January 11, 1974.