Background
Gorlin, Richard was born on June 30, 1926 in Jersey City. Son of Sol George and Henrietta (Bernfeld) Gorlin.
Gorlin, Richard was born on June 30, 1926 in Jersey City. Son of Sol George and Henrietta (Bernfeld) Gorlin.
Doctor of Medicine Harvard University, 1948.
Intern, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1948-1949;
resident, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston., 1948-1952;
member of staff, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston., 1953-1974;
senior associate medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston., 1960-1966;
physician, director cardiovascular unit, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston., 1967-1974;
chief cardiovascular division, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston., 1969-1974;
consultant physician, Veterans Administration Hospital., Bronx, New York, 1974-1997;
faculty, Harvard Medical School, 1949-1974;
assistant professor medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1961-1967;
associate professor, Harvard Medical School, 1968-1974;
physician-in-chief, Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center, New York City, 1974-1992;
senior vice president, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, 1992-1997;
professor, department chairman medicine, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1974-1992;
George Baehr professor medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1992-1997;
medical director, Mount Sinai Health System, 1994-1997. Honorary assistant St. Thomas Hospital, London, 1952-1953. Officer in charge cardiopulmonary laboratory United States Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1957-1960.
Lecturer internal medicine Chelsea (Massachusetts) Naval Hospital, 1957-1974. Visiting lecturer numerous international colleges including Rogers lecturer University of Wisconsin, Madison. McArthur lecturer U. Edinburgh, Scotland, R.T. Hall Trust lecturer, Australia.
Centennial lecturer University of Illinois Medical School, Chicago. Lewis Memorial lecturer Stanford School Medicine. Merck, Sharpe & Dohme visiting lecturer Yale University, 1971.
Principal lecturer, visiting professor U. Cincinnati Medical School. Sir James Wattie professor, New Zealand, 1972. George Fahr lecturer University of Minnesota, 1974.
Fried Memorial lecturer, 1976, Avila Berger lecturer, 1981, George Cecil Clarke Memorial lecturer, 1981;Laurence B. Ellis Memorial lecturer Harvard University Medical School, 1982. Visiting professor St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1983. James V. Warren lectr.Ohio State University School Medicine, 1983.
F. Mason Sones lecturer Cleveland Clinic Federation, 1983. Macklin lecturer Portsmouth Naval Hospital (Virginia), 1983. Lewis Conner lecturer American Heart Association, 1985, Executive Committee thrombosis council, 1972-1997.
Louis N. Katz lecturer Michael Reese Hospital University of Chicago, 1986. Henry Jackson lecturer New England Cardiovascular Society, Boston, 1987. PaulDudley White lecturer American Heart Association, 1988.
Irwin Callen lecturer Miami Heart Institute, 1991. Henry I Russek lecturer ACC, 1991. Isadore Rosenfeld lecturer NewYork Hospital, 1992.
Lawrence Green lecturer Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston. John Sampson visiting professor University of California, San Francisco, 1990. Member cardiovascular program study section National Institutes of Health, 1964-1968, training grant committee, 1969-1972, task force coronary artery disease, 1972-1997.
Chairman digitalis intervention trial National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, DVA, 1990-1997, Virginia Cooperative Study number 287, Vasodilators in chronic heart failure II 1985. Task force coronary artery disease International Study Group Research in Cardiac Metabolism. Special consultant University of Illinois Medical School, 1968.
Consultant in field; member steering committee cooperative study in cardiac catheterization National Heart Institute, 1963-1997. Research allocations committee Massachusetts Heart Association, 1965-1970. Trustee Heart Research Foundation.
Rose Weiss lecturer Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, 1990. Louis F. Bishop lecturer ACC, 1993, J. V. Warren lecturer, VHEFT I, II, III. Survival and Ventricular Enlargement Study, chair data monitoring and policy boards.
Thrombolysis in myocardial infarction VII, 1992.
President Freedom Inc., 1957. Officer in charge cardiopulmonary laboratory United States.Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1957-1960. Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, 1954-1956.
Master American College of Physicians. Fellow American College Cardiology (vice president). Member American Federation Clinical Research (national councillor 1960-1964), New England Cardiovascular Society (president 1967-1968), Massachusetts Heart Association (president elect 1973-1974), British Cardiac Society(corresponding member), Argentine Cardiac Society, Association American Physicians, American Society.Clin.
Investigation, American Physiological Society, Royal Society Medicine (United Kingdom), Association University Cardiologists, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Cardiac Muscle Society, New York Heart Association (president 1985), New York Cardiol. Society (president 1987).
Married Florence; children by previous marriage: Wendy, William, Douglas.
