Robert Higgins Higgins EBERT

Background

EBERT, Robert was born on September 10, 1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Son of Lilian Gilbertson and Michael H. Ebert.

Education

Bachelor of Science, University Chicago, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, University Chicago, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1939.

AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1964. Doctor of Science (honorary), Northeastern University, 1968. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Maryland, 1970.

Doctor of Science(honorary), Notre Dame University, 1977. Doctor of Science(honorary), New York Medical College, 1983. Doctor of Laws(honorary), University Toronto, 1970.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rush Medical College, 1974.

Career

Intern, assistant resident medicine, Boston City Hospital, 1942-1944; assistant, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor department medicine, University of Chicago, 1946-1955; professor, University of Chicago, 1955-1956; Hanna Payne professor medicine, Western Reserve U., 1956-1958; John H. Hord professor medicine, Western Reserve U., 1958-1964; director medicine, University Hospitals, 1956-1964; Jackson professor clinical medicine, Harvard University, 1964-1965; professor medicine, Harvard University, 1965-1973; Caroline Shields Walker professor of medicine, Harvard University, 1973-1977; emeritus, Harvard University, 1977-1996; dean Medical school and faculty of medicine, Harvard University, 1965-1977; head Harvard department medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1964-1965; president, Harvard Medical Center, 1965-1977; president, Harvard Cmty. Health Plan, 1968-1974; member board directors, Harvard Cmty. Health Plan, 1968-1994; Chairman of the Board, Harvard Cmty.

Health Plan, 1974-1984; chairman foundation, Harvard Cmty. Health Plan, 1983-1996; Chairman of the Board of overseers, Harvard Cmty. Health Plan, 1985-1996; examiner, American Board Internal Medicine, 1961-1964.

Vice chairman President' biomedical Research Panel, 1975-1976. Director Squibb Corporation, 1977-1987. Trustee Population Council, 1966-1996, Chairman of the Board, 1978-1988.

President Milbank Memorial Fund, 1978-1984, 88-89, board directors, 1972-1984, 88-96, member technical board, 1966-1977. Special consultant Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1984-1988. Member National Advisory Commision on Health Manpower, 1966-1967, member board directors National Medical Fellowships, 1984-1994.

Trustee Rockefeller Foundation, 1966-1976, Council for Division Biological Sciences Pritzker School Medicine, 1990-1995. Member visiting commission on colleges University of Chicago, 1967-1970. Board regents National Library.

Medicine, 1967-1971, chairman, 1970-1971. Member board visitors University of Pennsylvania School Medicine, 1968-1971. Member of advisory commission to director National Institutes of Health, 1968-1971.

Trustee Meharry Medical College, 1969-1974, Barnard College, 1977-1987, Mount Sinai Medical School, Hospital and Medical Center, 1978-1985. Member board regents Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, 1980-1984;Chairman of the Board overseers Dartmouth Medical School, 1983-1986. Special advisory The Commonwealth Fund, 1984-1994.

Director Mind-Body Medical Institute, 1992-1996, chairman board of directors, 1993-1996. Trustee Education Development Center, 1992-1996. Chairman visiting committee Health Science Center State University of New York, Brooklyn, 1988-1993.

Achievements

• Robert Higgins Ebert has been listed as a noteworthy physician, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• Other Work

  • Scientific articles on inflammation and tuberculosis.

Membership

Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association. Member American College of Physicians (master), American Society Clinical Investigation, American Thoracic Society (Chairman of Commission medical research 1955, president 1961-1962), American Clinical and Climatological Association, Association American Physicians (recorder 1962-1966, councillor 1966, president 1972-1973), Massachusetts Medical Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Omega Alpha, Omicron Kappa Upsilon (honorary), Kappa Pi Eta.

Interests

• Fishing, walking.

Connections

Married Emily Hirsch, June 17, 1939 (deceased 1986). Children: Elizabeth Schmidt-Nowara, John, Thomas. Married Barbara Bacheller, October 21, 1989.

Father:

Michael Ebert

Mother:

Lilian (Gilbertson) Ebert

Spouse:

Barbara Bacheller

Spouse:

Emily Hirsch

child:

Thomas Ebert

child:

John Ebert

child:

Elizabeth Schmidt-Nowara Ebert