Background
Burton-Opitz, Russell was born on October 25, 1875 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles and Anna Burton-Opitz.
Burton-Opitz, Russell was born on October 25, 1875 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles and Anna Burton-Opitz.
Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College, 1895. Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1897, post-graduate work, 1897-1898, South.M. Entertainment, 1902, Doctor of Philosophy, 1905. Post-graduated from the University Vienna, 1898.
;; married second. Elizabeth Elliot Phillips Cordts, 1932. Assistant in physiology U. Breslau, 1898-1901.
Investigator Marine Biological Station, Naples, 1901.
Assistant in physiology Harvard, 1901-1902. Assistant Columbia, 1902-1903, instructor, 1903-1904, Adjunct Professor, 1904-1910, associate professor physiology, 1909-1923, head department of physilogy, 1909-1911, lecturer in physiology, since 1923.
Consultant physician Cumberland Hospital. Consultant diseases of heart Lenox Hill, Englewood.
North Hudson, Holy Name, Christ, Hackensack hospitals (all New York City).
Fellow A.A Associate of Science; member of the American Medical Association, American Physiological Society, Society Experimental Medicine and Biology, American Society Naturalists, Deutsche Physiological Gesellschaft, American Society Biological Chemists, Medical Society State New York, New York County Medical Society, American Society Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapy, New York Cardiol. Society (president), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha (president).
Married Jeanette Jonassen, 1909 (deceased. Married second.