Background
Stastny, Peter was born on March 22, 1931 in Prague, Czech Republic. Son of Viktor Stastny and Margarete Mosberg.
Stastny, Peter was born on March 22, 1931 in Prague, Czech Republic. Son of Viktor Stastny and Margarete Mosberg.
Doctor of Medicine, San Marcos University, Lima, Peru, 1957.
Assistant resident medicine Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, 1963—1964. Fellow, rheumatic diseases unit University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1960—1963, instructor, internal medicine, 1964—1965, assistant professor internal medicine, 1965—1971, associate professor, 1971—1977, director, transplantation immunology division, since 1970, professor internal medicine, since 1977. Veterans administration clinical investigator VA, Dallas.
Board member United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Dallas, 1995—1997. Guest editor Human Immunology, Dallas, 2004—2005.
Director, trustee Folk Art & Crafts Foundation, Heath, Texas, since 1999. Member of American College Rheumatalogy (arthritis foundation fellow 1965-1968), Clinical Immunology Society, American Society Transplant Physicians, American Society Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (president 1995-1996, Terasaki Clinical Science award 2008), Transplantation Society, American Association Immunologists, American Society Clinical Investigation.
Married Maruja Infante, December 14, 1959. Children: Paul, Victor, Cesar.