Vadim Issay Kvitash

Background

Kvitash, Vadim Issay was born on March 19, 1936 in Odessa, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Came to the United States 1974.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Odessa Medical School, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Mechnikov's Science Research Institute of Virology and Epidemiology, Odessa, 1969.

Career

Chief pediatrics, Novo-Ivanovsk (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) Hospital, 1961-1964; postdoctoral researcher, Moscow Center Institute Medical Specialization, 1965; postdoctoral researcher experimental, clinical, industrial virology and immunology, Mechnikov's Science Research Institute of Virology and Epidemiology, Odessa, 1965-1969; research immunologist, Mechnikov's Science Research Institute of Virology and Epidemiology, Odessa, 1969-1970; Chairman of the Board Young Scientists, Mechnikov's Science Research Institute of Virology and Epidemiology, Odessa, 1969-1974; member science council, science consultant, Mechnikov's Science Research Institute of Virology and Epidemiology, Odessa, 1970-1974; science, medical consultant systemology laboratory, Odessa U., 1970-1974; medical director pediatric departments, Odessa Medical School Hospital, 1970-1974; assistant professor pediatrics, Odessa Medical School, 1970-1974; orderly, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1975; research associate, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1980-1982; principal investigator, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1980-1984; resident department pathology and laboratory medicine, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1981-1982; research assistant, IMMUNOPATHWAYS Laboratory, San Francisco, 1976-1977; research associate, IMMUNOPATHWAYS Laboratory, San Francisco, 1980-1981; science director, founder, Balascopy Institute, San Francisco, since 1980; private practice specializing in allergy-immunology, San Francisco, since 1982; affiliate senior scientist, Medical Research Institute of San Francisco, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, 1985-1987; senior research scientist, Center Preventive Medicine and Health Research, San Francisco State University, since 1987. Member clinical faculty department medicine University of California.

Achievements

• Vadim ISsay Kvitash has been listed as a notable physician, scientist, inventor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Academy Allergy and Immunology (member science committee anaohylaxis), American College Allergy and Immunology (science committee basic and clinical immunology, member science committee computers in medicine). Member American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Medical Association, San Francisco Medical Society, San Francisco Society Internal Medicine, American Association Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Joint Council Allergy and Immunology, European Academy Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Pan American Allergy Society, International Corresponding Society Allergists, Bay Area Huff and Puff Club, Bay Area History Medicine Club, American Heart Association, American Association Medical Systems and Informatics, Society Medical Decision Making, American Association Artificial Intelligence, American Society Cybernetics, American Medical Writers Association, Association Automated Reasoning, Cognitive Science Society, International Society for Sciences, Association Integrative Studies, Society Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Neural, Human and Social Sciences (founding), New York Academy of Sciences, San Francisco Society Russian Speaking Medical Personnel (founder, president).

Interests

• Avocations: fencing, art, philosophy.

Connections

Married Ivetta Kopilovsky, April 2, 1961. Children: Zoya, Sofia.

Spouse:

Ivetta Kopilovsky

child:

Zoya Kvitash

child:

Sofia Kvitash