Welton Mark Gersony

Background

Gersony, Welton Mark was born on November 19, 1931 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Son of Irving and Ann (Cohen) Gersony.

Education

AB, Syracuse University, 1954; Doctor of Medicine, State University of New York, Syracuse, 1958.

Career

Intern, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, 1958-1959; resident in pediatrics, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, 1959-1961; resident in pediatrics, Babies and Childrens Hospital, Cleveland, 1959-1961; fellow in cardiology, Harvard University, 1963-1965; assistant professor pediatrics, University Texas, Dallas, 1965-1968; assistant professor pediatrics, Columbia University, 1968-1971; associate professor, Columbia University, 1971-1974; professor, Columbia University, since 1974. Adjunct Professor Cornell Univercity, since 1998. Director division pediatric cardiology Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York Hospital.

Visiting director pediatric cardiology Great Ormond St. Hospital Sick Children, London, 1984-1985. Organizer 2d World Congress Pediatric Cardiology, New York City, 1985. Chairman steering committee World Congress Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, 1989-1997.

Member Substitute-board Pediatric Cardiology, 1976-1983, chairman, 1981-1983, committee official examiners, 1983-1990. Consultant in drug evaluation American Medical Association, since 1985. Consultant Extramural Affairs division National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, since 1988.

James Overall visiting professor pediatrics Vanderbilt University, 1991. Lecturer British Heart Foundation, 1991, Toby Keenan Memorial Symposium U. Maryland., 1994. Gladys Fashena lecturer Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, 1994.

Jerome D. Solomon Memorial lecturer National Center Advanced Medical Education, Chicago, 1994, 98. Member of advisory board Congress of Pediat. Cardiology International, since 1998.

Achievements

• Welton Mark Gersony has been listed as a noteworthy Physician, pediatric cardiologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Principal investigator National Institutes of Health grants. Member international committee, board directors International Cardiology Foundation, since 1993. Member program committee International Kawasaki Disease Chairman Cardiology Symposium, 1989, 92, 95.

Captain Medical Corps, United States Army, 1961-1963. Fellow American College Cardiology, American Academy Pediatrics. Member American Medical Association (accreditation county for graduate medical education since 1994), Society Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, American Heart Association (president county cardiovascular disease in the young 1988-1990, T. Duckett Jones lecturer 1998), American Federation Clinical Research, Harvey Society, Association European Paediatric Cardiologists (correspondent), International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease, American Contract Bridge League (life master).

Connections

Married Susan; children: Neal, Anne, Richard, Deborah.

Father:

Irving Gersony

Mother:

Ann (Cohen) Gersony

Spouse:

Susan

child:

Richard Gersony

child:

Deborah Gersony

child:

Anne Gersony

child:

Neal Gersony