Henry Gelband

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Henry gel tape (* 31 August 1936 in Vienna as Heinz gel tape ) is an American physician , pediatrician and university professor of Austrian descent.

Life

Henry Gelband was born on August 31, 1936 in Vienna. After the annexation of Austria , he lived with his parents in Austria for some time and, when the systematic exclusion of Jews became increasingly worse, fled with his family to Cuba in 1939 and from there to the United States in 1941. His father was a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp for some time , but he got out of it in 1939 and decided to leave the country with his family. The family initially lived in Newark , New Jersey . His mother died when he was 13 years old; his father died when Gelband was 25 years old. At a young age he helped in his father's business; the sister, who was one and a half years older, supported the parents in bringing up the youngest family member.

After secondary education and Columbia High School in Maplewood , New Jersey, he attended Washington & Jefferson College in Washington , Pennsylvania, from 1954 to 1958, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree . Gelband had a full scholarship to college and a full scholarship to medical school. Then he studied from 1958 to 1962 at the Thomas Jefferson University belonging Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia , where he became Doctor of Medicine (MD) doctorate . Parallel to his studies, he also worked for the US Navy from 1958 to 1963 , although he was a member of the United States Public Health Service . In 1963 he was also involved in research for the first time. He did his active military service from 1963 to 1965 with the US Marines and was a member of the reserve from 1959 to 1965. In June 1965, two months before the start of Operation Starlite , the first all-American military offensive in the Vietnam War , in which the Marines were also involved, he was discharged from military service.

After graduating, he worked at various hospitals (including Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City ) between 1965 and 1967 and was awarded a scholarship at Columbia University in New York City. He was then a scholarship holder from 1967 to 1969 and from 1969 to 1971 at the university in question. In 1971 he took under Division Chief Mary Jane Jesse (1918-2001) a position as assistant professor at the 1952 founded and thus oldest medical faculty in Florida, the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine belonging to the University of Miami . (As its clinical mentor Engl. : Clinical mentor ) acted Sidney Blumenthal (1909-1990), head of pediatric cardiology at Columbia University, who later Dean was and associate dean at the University of Miami. His research mentor was Brian Hoffman (1925-2013), chairman of the Pharmacology Department at Columbia.

In 1974 he was promoted to associate professor and was employed as such until 1977, before he was given his full professorship. From 1977 until his retirement in 1996 he was Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology. He specialized primarily in pediatric cardiology and is considered one of the founders of pediatric electrophysiology . From 1975 until his retirement in 1996, he was Pediatric Cardiology Division Chief at the University of Miami. From 1989 to 1992 he was Fellowship Chief and Division Chief at said university.

In addition to his university career, he was also involved in numerous other teaching and research activities, was a member of various scientific associations and various editorial commissions. Furthermore, he published many articles and contributions in medical journals throughout his life.

He has three sons (Craig, Heinz and Todd), the first two of whom are also active in the medical field and / or have taught at the University of Miami. He is also a grandfather of four. Today (as of 2019) he is still a volunteer at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Honors

Gelband was honored many times over the course of his life. Among other things, he received the Young Investigator Award (1st Place) in 1971 from the Section of Pediatric Cardiology of the American Academy of Pediatrics . From 1974 to 1976 he was the recipient of the Basil O'Connor Research Award , which is presented by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (now known as the March of Dimes ).

Today the Henry Gelband Pediatric Research Symposium is named after Gelband , at which Gelband, who lives in Key Biscayne, appears as honorary chairman.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Q&A Interview with Dr. Henry (Heinz) Gelband - May 16th, 2016 (pp. 6 to 11) (English), accessed November 6, 2019
  2. ↑ W&J Magazine Fall 2013, p. 29
  3. ↑ The Henry gel tape Pediatric Research Symposium Honors Work by Residents and Fellows (English), accessed on November 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Gelband, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helband, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor, pediatrician, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria