Background
Sommers, Sheldon Charles was born on July 7, 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles Birk and Leonore Sommers.
Sommers, Sheldon Charles was born on July 7, 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles Birk and Leonore Sommers.
Bachelor of Science, Harvard College, 1937; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1941.
Assistant resident, resident in pathology, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, 1946-1948; staff pathologist, New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston, 1950-1953; resident, Free Hospital for Women, Boston Lying-In Hospital, 1948-1949; resident, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1949-1950; pathologist, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, 1953-1961; pathologist, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, California, 1961-1963; associate director, director laboratories, Delafield Hospital, New York City, 1963-1968; associate director, director laboratories, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, 1968-1981; retired, 1989. Member breast cancer task force National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1955;member science advisory board Council for Tobacco Research, New York City, 1966-1989, Smokeless Tobacco Research Council, New York City, 1990-1995. Emeritus clinical professor pathology University of Southern California School Medicine, Los Angeles, 1987.
Chairman Board Health, Alpine, New Jersey, 1972-1976, New York State Mental Hygiene Medical Review Board, New York City, 1976-1985. Captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1942-1946. Member New England Pathol.
Society (president 1957-1958), New York Pathological Society (president 1977-1979), New York County Medical Society, New York Academy Medicine, American Society Clinical Pathologists, Arthur Purdy Stout Society Surgical Pathologists (president 1983-1985).
Married Edith Briggs, November 9, 1943 (deceased). Bernice Lang, November 11, 1990 (divorced).