Simon Karpatkin

Background

Karpatkin, Simon was born on September 6, 1933 in Brooklyn.

Education

Bachelor of Science magna cum laude, Brooklyn College, 1954; Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1958.

Career

Intern, then resident in medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New York University, 1958-1960; resident in medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Bronx, New York, 1960-1961; fellow in coagulation, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, 1960; fellow department hematology, United States Public Health Service training grantee, Washington University, St. Louis, 1961-1962; American Cancer Society fellow department biochemistry School Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, 1963-1964; visiting physician, Bellevue Hospital, 1967; from instructor to professor medicine, School Medicine New York University, 1964-1974; professor, School Medicine New York University, since 1974; director honors program, School Medicine New York University, 1973-1977; director division hematology, School Medicine New York University, since 1994. Visiting professor university and hospitals, most recently Marshall U., Huntington, West Virginia, 1992, Hospital Cantonal Geneva, 1994, College Medicine Pennsylvania State College, Hershey, 1994. Consultant Hoffman-La Roche, 1974, Miles laboratories, 1982, Warner-Lambert, 1984, Imre, 1986, Centocor, 1986.

Member blood diseasespanel task group National Heart and Lung Institute, 1972, member annual ad hoc grant grant review committee, since 1980, member working group on minority recruitment, 1993, chairman clinical investigator development award study section, since 1993. Member subcommittee on platelets International Congress Thrombosis and Hemastasis, 1979-1984, member science program committee, 1992-1993, member international science advisory board, 1993-1995. Member research peer review committee New York Heart Association, 1993-1996.

Member science program committee International Comf., Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome/III STD World Congress, 1991-1992.

Achievements

• Simon Karpatkin has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Society Hematology (member hemostasis subcommittee 1974-1977), Society for Study of Blood (president 1988-1989), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (associate editor procs. since 1990), American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Physiology, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Biological Chemistry, American Association Physicians, Interurban Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.