Background
Nachman, Ralph Louis was born on June 29, 1931 in Bayonne, New Jersey, United States. Son of Samuel Nachman and Ethel Nelson.
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Ralph Louis Nachman
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Bachelor, Vanderbilt University, 1953; Doctor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 1956.
Career
Intern in medicine, Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1956-1957;
assistant resident in medicine, Montefiore Hospital, 1960-1962;
assistant resident in pathology, New York Hospital-Cornell Univercity Medical Center, New York City, 1957-1958;
research fellow in medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Univercity Medical Center, New York City, 1962-1963;
director laboratories for clinical pathology, New York Hospital, 1963-1969;
associate attending physician, New York Hospital, 1968-1972;
attending physician, New York Hospital, since 1972;
from instructor to assistant professor to associate professor medicine, Cornell Medical Center, 1963-1972;
chief division hematology, Cornell Medical Center, 1968-1993;
professor medicine, Cornell Medical Center, since 1972;
vice department chairman medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1974-1978;
acting department chairman medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1974-1975;
director Specialized Center Research in Thrombosis, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1976-1997;
acting co-department chairman medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1980-1981;
board overseers, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1987-1989;
chairman Department of Medical, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1990;
physician-in-chief, New York Hospital, 1990. Guest investigator Rockefeller U., 1969-1970. Wiessberg lecturer Case Western Reserve U., 1978.
Aggeler lecturer University of California, San Francisco, 1981. Patek lecturer Boston University, 1981. Rosenthal lecturer Mount Sinai, 1982.
Beaumont lecturer Washington U., 1983. Wiener lecturer New York Blood Center, 1983. Chairman Gordon Conference on Hemostasis, 1984.
Alpha Omega Alpha lecturer New York Medical College, 1985. Sharp lecturer Wayne State University, 1986. Roon lecturer Scripps Research Institute, 1987.
Johnson lecturer International Society on Thrombosis, 1987. Merck lecturer Cleveland Clinic, 1987. Visiting professor Harvard University, 1991.
E. Stanley Emery Junior Memorial lectr, physician-in-chief pro tempore, 1991. Chief resident's visiting professor Baylor College Medicine, 1991. Samuel S. Riven visiting professor Vanderbilt University, 1992.
Hymie Nossel Memorial lecturer Columbia University, 1992. Pfizer visiting professor Royal Society Medicine, 1992. Distinguished lecturer American Heart Association, 1994.
Seckler lecturer Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1994. Runme Shaw Memorial lecturer Academy Medicine, Singapore, 1994. Chairman hematologystudy panel Health Research Council, New York City, 1973-1975.
Member National Institutes of Health-Program Project Committee, Heart and Lung Institute, 1975-1979. Board of Governors American Board InternalMedicine, 1985-1988. Consultant Manhattan Veterans Administration Hospital.
Visiting physician Rockefeller U. Hospital.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Navy, 1958-1960. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Federation Clinical Research, American Clinical and Climatological assosiation, New York Academy Science, New York Society for Study of Blood (president 1975), American Society Hematology (executive county 1978-1979), Harvey Society (county 1980), American Physiological Association, International Society Thrombosis and Hemostasis (county 1986-1992), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Biological Chemists, Institute Medicine of NAS, New York Academy of Medicine, Cornell Medical Alumni (honorary), National Blood Club (president 1981-1982), Peripatetic Club, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Nancy Rubin; children: Susan, Steve.
