Background
Rapaport, Samuel I. was born on November 19, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Hyman and Bertha (Krupnick) Rapaport.
Rapaport, Samuel I. was born on November 19, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Hyman and Bertha (Krupnick) Rapaport.
Student, University of California at Los Angeles Doctor of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1945.
Intern, Los Angeles County Hospital, 1945;
resident medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital., Long Beach, California, 1948-1950;
chief hematology section, Veterans Administration Hospital., 1950-1957;
associate professor medicine, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1957-1958;
member of faculty, University of Southern California School Medicine, 1958-1974;
head hematology division department medicine, University of Southern California School Medicine, 1958-1974;
professor medicine, University of Southern California School Medicine, 1964-1974;
head hematology division, Los Angeles County-University Southern California Medical Center, 1958-1974;
chief medical service, San Diego Veterans Administration Hospital., 1974-1978;
professor medicine, University of California, San Diego, 1974-1996;
professor emeritus, since 1996;
vice department chairman medicine, University of California, 1974-1978;
co-head hematology-oncology division, University of California, 1978-1987;
professor pathology, University of California, 1980-1993;
director, Hematology Laboratory, University of California-San Diego Medical Center, 1980-1987. Consultant hematology training grants study section National Institute Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, 1968-1971. Member medical advisory county National Hemophilia Foundation, 1970, 77—.
Chairman advising committee, division blood diseases and resources National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1980-1982, member of advisory county, 1989-1993. Member hematology study section National Institutes of Health, 1984-1988, chairman study section, 1977-1988.
Chairman council on thrombosis American Heart Association, 1995-1997. Served with United States Army Air Force, 1946-1948. Master American College of Physicians (John Phillips Memorial award for outstanding work on clinical medicine 1996).
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Association American Physicians, American Society Hematology (president 1977), Western Society Clinical Research (president 1966), American Federation Clinical Research (chairman Western section 1960), American Society Clinical Investigation, Western Association Physicians (president 1973).
Married Joyce Mildred Cooperman, October 3, 1951. Children: Susan Rapaport Braunwald, Sally Rapaport Hartinian, Mark Hyman, Bruce Allen.