Background
Lubkin, Virginia Leila was born on October 26, 1914 in New York City. Daughter of Joseph and Anna Fredericka (Stern) Lubkin.
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Virginia Leila Lubkin
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Bachelor of Science summa cum laude, New York University, 1933. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia College Physicans & Surgeons, 1937.
Career
Intern Harlem Hospital Medical House, New York City, 1938-1940. Assistant resident neurology Montefiore Hospital, 1940, assistant resident general pathology, 1940-1941, fellow in ophthalmology, 1941-1942. Assistant resident graduate basic science P & S Ophthalmology Harkness Eye Institute, 1941-1942.
Resident ophthalmology Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1942-1943, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1943-1944. Attending ophthalmologist, assistant and associate clinical professor emeritus Mount Sinai School Medicine, from 1944. Also senior attending ophthalmic surgeon, associate plastic surgical New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Private practice New York City, 1945-1990. Research professor New York Medical College, Valhalla, from 1983. Co-creator, now chief of research bioengineering laboratory New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (name now The Aborn Eye Research Center), New York City, from 1978.
Researcher piezoelectric aspects of ocular tissues. Creator first graduate course in oculoplastics and bi-yearly symposia in development dyslexia Mount Sinai School Medicine. Educator courses in psychosomatic ophthalmology American Academy Ophthalmology, 1950—1960, educator course in complications of blepharoplasty, 1980—1990.
Board directors Jewish Guild for the Blind. Teacher surgical ophthalmology in French Cameroon Presbyterian Mission, 1951. Lecturer in numerous countries including India, India, 76.
Lecturer in numerous countries including, India, 92, Pakistan, 76, Pakistan, 84, China, 78, Sri Lanka, 79, South Africa, 82, Singapore, 84, Thailand, 84, Argentina, 86, Peter Island, 87. Educational director Aborn Eye Research Laboratory New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, from 2001. Honorary attending surgeon New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Research assistant in hematology Mount Sinai Hospital with Doctor Nathan Rosenthal, 1937. With Doctor H. Abramson, 37. Consulting ophthalmologist Sharon Hospital, Connecticut.
Postgraduate Institute New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1959—1971, American Academy Ophthalmology, 1968, 1969—1971, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1970, Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1970. Visiting professor University San Marco, Lima, Peru, 1967. Lecturer, co-chairman, chairman, and organizer in field at various meetings, symposiums and conferences.
Course director Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1971, 73, assistant course director, 72. Director, founder resident (with Professor Martin Gersten and Richard Koplin) research fund New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1978. Education director department biomedical engineering New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1978.
Impartial specialist in ophthamology worker's compensation board, from 1979.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Center fo Environmental Therapeutics, 1995. Member Jewish Guild for the Blind, since 1987. Fellow American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (founding), American Association Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (instructor 1955-1971), American Society Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (charter member, founder 1969), American Academy Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, New York Academy Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, American Academy Ophthalmology (Senior Honor award 1989), American Society Cataract and Refractive Surgery, PanAmerican Society Ophthalmology, New York Society Clinical Ophthalmology (officer, vice president 1969-1970, president 1970-1971), Society Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms, Phi Beta Kappa (Mandel chemistry prize), Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Arnold Malkan, June 6, 1944 (divorced 1949). Married Martin Bernstein, August 28, 1949. Children: Ellen Henrietta, James Ernst, Roger Joel, John Conrad.
Awards
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Grantee Intraocular Lens Implant Manufacturers, 1989. Recipient Merit award American Academy Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 1966, Senior award, 1989.Grantee Intraocular Lens Implant Manufacturers, 1989. Recipient Merit award American Academy Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 1966, Senior award, 1989.