Background
Block, Peter Carl was born on March 26, 1938 in Baltimore.
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Peter Carl Block
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AB cum laude, Amherst College, 1959; Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard University, 1964.
Career
Medical intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1964-1965;
assistant resident, internal medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1965-1966;
biomedical investigator United States Navy Medical Corps, Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, San Francisco, 1966-1968;
clinical and research fellow in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1968-1970;
teaching fellow in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1968-1970;
assistant in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1970-1971;
assistant physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1973-1976;
director cardiac catheterization laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1974-1991;
associate physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1977-1983;
physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1984-1991;
associate director The Heart Institute, St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, since 1991. Medical director coronary care unit, interventional cardiovascular recovery unit, cardiac catheterization laboratory St. Vincent Hospital, since 1994. Instructor in medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1970-1972, assistant professor medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1972-1981, associate professor medicine, 1981-1991, professor biomedical science and engineering Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, since 1993, professor medicine Oregon Health Sciences U., Portland, since 1996.
Consultant in cardiology Chelsea (Massachusetts) Soldiers Home, 1970-1991, Veterans Administration Hospital., West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1983-1991.
Achievements
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Nationality
American
Awards
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Fellow American College Cardiology, American College Angiology, American Heart Association (county on clinical cardiology). Member American Medical Association (Physician's Recognition award in continuing medical education 1982, 85), Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (governor northwestern region since 1995), Western Association Vascular Technology, Oregon Medical Association, Massachusetts Heart Association.Fellow American College Cardiology, American College Angiology, American Heart Association (county on clinical cardiology). Member American Medical Association (Physician's Recognition award in continuing medical education 1982, 85), Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (governor northwestern region since 1995), Western Association Vascular Technology, Oregon Medical Association, Massachusetts Heart Association.