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Michael Katz, M.D

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Michael Katz, M.D.,
Vice President,
Research March of Dimes.


Michael Katz, M.D.,
Vice President,

EDUCATION:

University of Pennsylvania, AB, 1949, Zoology.
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, MD, 1956.
University of California Hospital Los Angeles, CA, 1956-57, Internship.
Presbyterian Hospital (Babies Hospital) New York, NY,1959-62, Residency in Pediatrics.
Columbia University, MS, 1963, Tropical Medicine - Parasitology.

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Babies Hospital (Presbyterian Hospital), NY:
1962-64 Visiting Fellow
1964-65 Assistant Pediatrician
1963-64 Honorary Paediatric Specialist Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
1963-64 Honorary Lecturer Paediatrics Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda
1964-65 Associate Visiting Pediatrician, Harlem Hospital, New York, NY
Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, PA::
1965-66 Assistant Physician
1965-70 Member Research Department
1966-70 Associate Physician
Babies Hospital (Presbyterian Hospital), NY:
1970-92 Attending Pediatrician
1972-77 Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
1977-92 Director, Pediatric Service
1992-93 Consultant
1993- Consultant emeritus
1970-92 Parasitologist, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine:
1965-66 Associate in Pediatrics
1966-70 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
1965-70 Associate Member, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY:
1970-92 Professor of Public Health (Tropical Medicine)
1992- Professor of Public Health (Tropical Medicine), Emeritus
1970-77 Head, Division of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health
1972-77 Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
1977-92 Chairman, Department of Pediatrics
1977-92 Reuben S. Carpentier Professor of Pediatrics
1992- Reuben S. Carpentier Professor, emeritus of Pediatrics
1992- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Vice President Research

American Academy of Pediatrics (Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
American Pediatric Society
Corresponding Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Neuropathologie and euroanatomie E.V.
Infectious Diseases Society of America (Fellow)
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science
Alfred M. Jurzykowski Foundation, Inc., Award in Medicine, 1983
Society for Pediatric Research
Senior Distinguished Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Bonn, Germany), 1987
World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects, President 1994-
1957-59 Military Service: LT MC USNR