Background
Zuelzer, Wolf W. was born on May 24, 1909 in Berlin. Son of George and Edith (Wolf) Zuelzer.
Zuelzer, Wolf W. was born on May 24, 1909 in Berlin. Son of George and Edith (Wolf) Zuelzer.
Student, University Bonn, Germany, 1932. Doctor of Medicine, Prague German University, 1935. Doctor of Medicine, Wayne State University, 1943.
Postgraduate training in pediatrics, Cambridge (Massachusetts) City Hospital, 1935-1936;
postgraduate training in pediatrics, MAss. General Hospital, Boston, 1937;
in contagious diseases, Charles V. Chapin Hospital, 1936;
in pathology, Boston Children's Hospital, 1938;
in pathology, Children's Memorial Hospital and Otho. S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, 1939-1940;
pathologist, director laboratory medicine, Children's Hospital, Michigan, 1940-1974;
hematologist-in-chief, Children's Hospital, Michigan, 1943-1974;
director, Children Research Michigan, 1955-1975;
president, medical co-director, Michigan Community Blood Center, 1955-1975;
consultant pediatrics, Sinai Hospital, 1973-1975;
associate director blood resources and branch chief division blood diseases and resources, NAt.
Heart and Lung Institute, 1975;
acting director division, NAt. Heart and Lung Institute, 1975-1976;
director division blood diseases and resources, NAt. Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1976-1980.
Instructor pathology Wayne State University, Detroit, 1940-1943, assistant professor pathology and pediatrics, 1943-1946, professor pediatric research, 1946-1975. Chairman medical advisory board Children's Leukemia Foundation, Michigan, 1955-1975. Guest lecturer U. Newcastle, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 1970.
Guest professor Catholic U., Rome, 1970. Chairman human embryology and development study section National Institutes of Health, 1959-1963,68-72. Consultant in field.
(Detroit, OH: Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1982....)
Member American Association Blood Banks (Morten Grove-Rasmussen Meml award 1976), Michigan Assn.Blood Banks, American Society Hematology, Society Europpene d'Hematlogie, American Academy Pediatrics (1st Mead Johnson award 1948), Society Pediatric Research (president 1955-1956), Midwest Society Pediatric Research, American Society Human Genetics, Environmental Mutagen Society, Society Study Social Biology, New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Michigan Society Pathologists, Children's Hospital Alumni Club, Committee Impact biomedical Research, Detroit Academy Medicine, Detroit Pediatric Society (vice president 1952-1953, president 1953-1954), Alpha Omega Alpha. Emeritus member American Pediatric Society, Perinatal Research Society. Correspondent member Society Suisse de Pediatrie.
Married Margery Jenks, 1938 (deceased 1966). Children: Barbara, Jacqueline. Married Ruby Thompson, 1967.
1 stepchild, Daniel Thompson Junior.