Seymour Grufferman

Background

Grufferman, Seymour was born on November 29, 1937 in New York City. Son of Leo and Claire (Eisdorfer) Grufferman.

Education

Bachelor of Science, CUNY, 1960; Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York, Syracuse, 1964; Master in Public Health, Harvard University, 1968; Master of Science, Harvard University, 1974; Doctor of Public Health, Harvard University, 1979.

Career

Intern, University of Illinois Research and Ednl. Hospitals, Chicago, 1964-1965; resident in pediatrics, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York City, 1965-1967; assistant professor, head Department Public Health, Gondar (Ethiopia) Public Health College, Haile Selassie I U., 1971-1973; epidemiologist, Management Sciences for Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1974; teaching fellow, Department Epidemiology, Harvard School Public Health, Boston, 1975-1976; assistant professor pediatrics, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1976-1981; associate professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1981-1987; assistant professor Department Medicine, chief Clinical Epidemiological Division Department Pediatrics, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1984-1987; director Epidemiology and Biostats. Unit, Comprehensive Cancer Center Duke U., 1976-1987; director Cancer Prevention and Control Program, also Executive Committee, Comprehensive Cancer Center Duke U., 1981-1987; attending pediatrician, Duke U. Hospital, 1976-1987; director epidemiology study program, School Medicine Duke U., 1978-1987; professor department epidemiology graduate school public health, U. Pittsburgh, 1987-1988; professor & department chairman family medicine & clinical epidemiology, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, since 1988; director family medicine division, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, since 1993; president, University Family Practice Associations, since 1994; chairman, University Physician's Practice Association, since 1995.

Adjunct associate professor department epidemiology School Public Health, member graduate faculty U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1982-1987. Member admissions committee Harvard Sch.Pub. Health, 1974-1976, search committee for director international health program,1975.

Member 3d year curriculum committee School Medicine, Duke U., 1976-1978. Medical records committee Duke U. Medical Center, 1977-1987, clinical cancer education program committee, 1978-1987, intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma study committee, since 1978. Member of commission on cancer North Carolina Secretary Human Resources, 1979-1981.

Public education committee North Carolina division American Cancer Society, 1984-1987, science advising committee on clinical investigations III, 1987-1991. Member science committee National Committee on Radiation Protectionand Measurements, 1985-1989. Ad hoc member Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section National Institutes of Health, 1978, chairman epidemiology and technical transfer subcommittee on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome research review committee, 1987-1991.

Member numerous special review and ad hoc committees, participant workshops, conferences National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, reviewers reserve, 1991-1995. Member commission to review health effects in Vietnamvets. of exposure to herbisides Institute Medicine of National Academy Sciences, since 1995. Reviewers reserve National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Consultant Research Triangle Institute, North Carolina, 1977-1978, Burroughs Wellcome Company, 1979-1987, International Agency for Research on Cancer worldwide, 1981-1990, tropical disease research program World Health Organization, 1981, Rockfeller Foundation, 1982, Plough, Inc., Memphis, 1985-1993, European Institute Oncology, Milan, since 1993. Invitedlectr. Association Teachers Preventive Medicine, 1992, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, 1982, Leukemia Society American, 1984. Board directors Tri-State Health Sys.

Achievements

• Seymour Grufferman has been listed as a noteworthy Medical educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to major United States Air Force, 1968-1971. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College Epidemiology. Member American Association Cancer Education, American Association Cancer Research, American Society Preventive Oncology, Children's Cancer Group, Pediatric Oncology Group, Society Epidemiological Research (student prize paper award 1979), Dandie Dinmont Terrier of America.

Interests

• Avocations: raising orchids, collecting decorative arts.

Connections

Married Sue Young Sook Kimm, December 23, 1967.

Father:

Leo Grufferman

Mother:

Claire (Eisdorfer) Grufferman

Spouse:

Sue Young Sook Kimm