Gerald Hass

Gerald Hass (born August 10, 1934 in Berlin as Gerhard Hass ) is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and founder of a clinic for the poor in the south of Boston .

Life

Gerhard Hass grew up as the second of three sons in a wealthy Jewish entrepreneurial family in Berlin-Tiergarten. His grandfather Chaim Hass ran a successful company producing high-quality down comforters. In 1938 the company was expropriated. The family then emigrated to London via France. The grandfather stayed in Germany and survived the persecution of the Jews under the name of Karl Gottschalk on an estate in Brandenburg. He followed the family to London in 1946.

Hass studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College and continued his studies in Boston from 1962. He then took up a job as a pediatrician in London and was also a lecturer. In 1966 he went back to Boston and settled there as a pediatrician. In 1969 he and Melvin Scovell, a local shoe manufacturer, founded a clinic in the basement of a church in south Boston, where everyone was treated, even if they couldn't pay. In the course of time, the South End Community Health Center was created with several hundred employees, in which Hass works as physician-in-chief.

Hass also received a call from Harvard University , where he worked at the Children's Hospital Boston as an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Gerhard Hass is married and has three daughters.

Web links

• Gerald Hass at Boston Medical Center
• Presentation of the Third Annual Dean's Community Service Award (English)