Rudi SCHMID

Background

Schmid, Rudi was born on May 2, 1922 in Switzerland. Arrived in the United States, 1947, naturalized, 1954. Son of Rudolf and Bertha (Schiesser).

Education

Bachelor of Science, Gymnasium Zurich, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, University Zurich, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1954.

Career

Intern University California Medical Center, San Francisco, 1948—1949. Resident medicine University Minnesota, 1949—1952, instructor, 1952—1954. Research fellow biochemistry Columbia University, 1954—1955.

Investigator National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1955—1957. Associate medicine Harvard Medical School, 1957—1959. Assistant professor Harvard University, 1959—1962.

Professor medicine University Chicago, 1962—1966, University California, San Francisco, 1966—1991, recall professor medicine, 1991—2004, professor emeritus, 2005, dean School Medicine, 1983—1989, associate dean international relations, 1989—1995. Consultant to the United States Army surgeon general National Institutes of Health. Honorary professor Peking Union Medical College, Shanghai Second Medical University, Xian University of Medical Science, Jillin University Medicine.

With Swiss Army, 1943-1947.

Achievements

• Achievements include research in biochemistry, metabolism of hemoglobin, heme, prophyrins, bile pigments, liver and muscle.

Membership

Master: American College of Physicians. Fellow: Royal College Physicians, New York Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: National Academy of Sciences, German-American Academy Council (executive committee 1992-1999), Leopoldina/German Academy of Sciences, Swiss Academy Medical Sciences, American Association Study Liver Disease (president 1965), American Gastroenterol.

Association, American Society Hematology, American Society Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology, American Society Clinical Investigation, Association American Physicians 1986, International Association Study Liver 1980-1982, IOM (senior ).

Interests

• Travel, reading, music, skiing, mountain climbing, tennis.

Connections

Married Sonja D. Wild, September 17, 1949.

Father:

Rudolf Schmid

Mother:

Bertha (Schiesser) Schmid

Spouse:

Sonja D. Wild