Background
Haber, Edgar was born on February 1, 1932 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Fred Siegfried and Dorothy Judith (Bernstein) Haber. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1944.
Haber, Edgar was born on February 1, 1932 in Berlin, Germany. Son of Fred Siegfried and Dorothy Judith (Bernstein) Haber. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1944.
Edgar Haber attended the Horace Mann School, graduating in 1949, received an Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1952, and an Doctor of Medicine from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1956.
Intern in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1956-1957;
assistant resident in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1957-1958;
resident in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1961-1962;
assistant in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1963-1964;
assistant physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1965-1968;
physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1969-1997;
chief cardiac unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1964-1988;
associate, Laboratory Cellular Physiology, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1958-1961;
honorary clinical assistant cardiac department, St. George's Hospital, London, England., 1962-1963;
instructor medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1963-1964;
associate in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1964-1965;
assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1965-1968;
associate professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1968-1971;
professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1971-1990;
clinical professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1990-1991;
professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1991-1997;
Elkan R. Blout professor, director division biological science, Harvard School Public Health, Boston, 1991-1997;
director Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Harvard School Public Health, Boston, 1991-1997;
president, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, New Jersey, 1988-1990;
president, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, New Jersey, 1990-1991;
senior physician, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, 1992-1997. Fellow Lincoln College, Oxford, 1992-1997. Member study section allergy and immunology National Institutes of Health, 1965-1968, vice chairman panel on heart and blood vessel diseases, 1972-1973, member arteriosclerosis task force, 1978.
Member task force on immunology and disease National Institute Allergy and Infectious Disease, 1972-1973. Member tissue and organ biology interdisciplinary cluster President's biomedical Research Panel, 1975. Member United States delegate to the United States-USSRHealth Exchange, 1975.
Chairman Chemical Industries Basel award committee Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1980-1981. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1967, 78, 85, Emory University, 1971, U. Alabama, 1971, 76, 86, Mayo Clinic, 1972, University of California, SanFrancisco, 1972, Los Angeles, 1987, American U., Beirut, Lebanon, 1972, Duke U., 1976, U. Mississippi, 1978, University Texas, Dallas, 1982, Chinese Academy Medical Sciences, Beijing, 1982, Monash U., Melbourne, Australia, 1983, RoyalPostgrad. Medical School, London, 1984, U. Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1985, Dartmouth College, 1986, State University of New York, Syracuse, 1987.
Senior physician Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, 1992-1997. Visiting scholar McGill University, Montreal, 1984. Guest lecturer Biological Society and Cardiol.
Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1971. World Health Organization lecturer, Santiago, Chile, 1973. Jennifer Jones Simon lecturer in medical science California Institute Technology, 1974.
Alpha Omega Alpha lectr.La. State University, 1975. George C. Griffith science lecturer, 1975.
Centenniallectr. Meharry Medical School, 1976. John Kent Memorial lecturer Stanford University, 1978. Ives lecturer Society of Fellows, Scripps clinic and Research Foundation, 1979.
Bunn Memorial lecturer Youngstown Hospital Association, N.E. Ohio Universities, 1979. John Jay Sampson lecturer Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1979. 1st international lecturer International Society and Federation of Cardiology, 1980.
Pfizer lecturer Southwestern U., 1980, Clinical Research Institute, Montreal, Canada, 1981, Plenary lecturer Japanese Society Hypertension, 1981, Berry Memorial lecturer, Chandigarh, India, 1982. 1st George Pickering lecturer British Hypertension Society, 1983. 7th annual Irvine Page lecturer Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1984.
Sommer Memorial lecturer U. Oregon, 1985. Lecturer William Goldring Memorial New York University, 1985. Lecturer R.T. Hall Lectureship of Cardiac Society Australia and New Zealand, 1986.
Lecturer Joseph A. Nicholson Lecture in Cardiology at Tufts U., 1987. Lecturer James B. Herrick Lecture of Chicago Heart Association, 1987, 17th annual Arvilla Berger lecturer New York Cardiological Society, 1990. Board directors Center for Prevention CardiovascularDisease.
Trustee Boston biomedical Research Institute, Inc. Served with United States Public Health Service, 1958-1962. Fellow American College Cardiology (Distinguished Scientist award 1991), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member NAS (Institute Medicine), Royal Society Medicine (London), American Society Biological Chemists (membership committee 1971-1973), Massachusetts Medical Society, American Association Immunologists, American Society Clinical Investigation (nominating committee 1972, councillor 1975), American Federation Clinical Research, British Society Immunology, Association American Physicians, International Society Hypertension (Volhard Prize 1980), American Heart Association (fellow council on clinical cardiology, research committee 1970-1976, vice president for research 1973-1974, public policy andgovt. relations working group 1973-1974, George E. Brown memorial lecturer 1973), International Union Immunological Socs. (chairman education committee 1971-1973), New England Cardiovascular Society (president 1978-1979), Association University Cardiologists (vice president 1979-1980, president 1980-1981), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Carol Avery, November 16, 1958. Children: Justin, Graham, Eben.