Background
Walsh, William Bertalan was born on April 26, 1920 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph W. and Irene (Viola) Walsh.
Walsh, William Bertalan was born on April 26, 1920 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph W. and Irene (Viola) Walsh.
Bachelor of Science, St. John's University, 1940. Doctor of Medicine, Georgetown University, 1943. Doctor of Science (honorary), Georgetown University, 1962.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Beaver College, Pennsylvania, 1967. Doctor of Science, St. John's University, 1968. Doctor of Science, Howard University, 1969.
Doctor of Laws, Trinity College, 1969. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Clarkson College of Technology, 1975. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Carthage College, 1970.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New York Medical College, 1983. HHD (honorary), Duquesne University, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Copernicus Medical Academy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1990.
Intern Long Island College Hospital, 1943-1944. Resident internal medicine Georgetown University Hospital, 1946-1948. Practice medicine specializing in internal medicine Washington, 1946-1964.
Clinical professor internal medicine Georgetown University Medical School, 1958-1970. Board directors GenCorp. Chief executive officer, president People-to-People Health Foundation, 1958-1991.
Founder Project Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, since 1958. Public Health Affairs. Consultant surgeon general United States Air Force, surgeon general United States Public Health Service.
Member President's Advisory Committee Physical Fitness Youth, 1956-1959. Vice chairman President's Advisory Committee Selection Doctors and Dentists and Allied Specialists for Selective Service System, 1959-1960. Vice chairman health resources advisory committee OCDM, 1956-1959, chairman, 1960.
Consultant diseases chest National Institutes of Health, 1954-1961. Former member President's Committee on Employment Handicapped. Former vice chairman Federation People-to-People Programs.
Former member directing program National Council on Patient Information and Education. Former member public liaison board National Center for Allied Health Leadership. Former member advisory committee on volunteer foreign aid Agency for International Development.
Member executive committee President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control. Former chairman President's Advisory Committee on Health. Board directors Marimed Foundation.
Member private sector book and library committee United States Information Agency. Former member Presidential Board Advisors on Private Sector Initiatives. Member American delegate to World Health Assembly, 1986, 87-88, 89, 90.
Member adjunct faculty Shenandoah College and Conservatory Music. Board directors Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc. Member American committee International Red Cross Museum.
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Board governors John Carroll Society. Member, life regent emeritus Georgetown University. Trustee Landon School Boys, Washington.
Member President's Commission on Executive Exchange, National Bipartisan Commission on Central America. Member Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic. Board councillors American Association of Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Former chairman Sharing International Served to lieutenant, Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, PTO. Fellow International College Dentists (honorary). Member American Medical Association (member council national defense 1954-1956), American Society Internal Medicine (executive committee, chairman legislative committee 1957-1959), District of Columbia Medical Society, National Medical Veterans Society (president 1952), American Dental Association (honorary), American Society Association Executives(key philanthropic organizations committee since 1991), United States Pharmacopoeial Convention Inc. Advisory Panel. Clubs: University (Washington).
Columbia Country (Chevy Chase, Maryland). Circumnavigators (Magellan medal 1965) (New York City). Union League (New York City).
Married Helen Rundvold, December 19, 1943. Children: William Bertalan, John Thomas, Thomas Stephen.