Joel Weisman

Joel Weisman (born February 20, 1943 in Newark , New Jersey , † July 18, 2009 in Westwood, Los Angeles ) was an internal medicine doctor and AIDS researcher.

Life

Weisman graduated from the Kansas City College of Osteopathy , now the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, in 1970 .

Publications

Together with Michael S. Gottlieb from the UCLA Medical Center , Joel Weismann reported in a publication dated June 4, 1981 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) of the United States health authority Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about an accumulation of rare pneumonia caused by an otherwise harmless germ. This publication is considered to be the first mention of the then unknown immunodeficiency disease AIDS . An expanded publication appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in December 1981 . It was unknown at the time that AIDS was caused by a virus.

Act

Weisman has been involved in setting up the Aids Project Los Angeles (APLA) since 1983 . Weisman served on the board of directors of The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) , which Gottlieb and Mathilde Krim co-founded , from 1988 to 1992 as chairman. Together with other doctors, Weisman treated patients with HIV or AIDS in the Pacific Oaks Medical Group . In his circle of friends, Weisman u. a. also his partner Timothy Bogue through the illness. His speech at the Commitment to Life V event marks the beginning of a national effort by the US government to fight AIDS . At Sherman Oaks Community Hospital , Weisman built the first infirmary, the Immune Suppressed Unit, for AIDS patients in the USA. Weisman died in Westwood , Los Angeles in 2009 after a long illness of heart disease . He leaves behind a partner, daughter and granddaughter.

Honors

Together with Bette Midler , Sidney Sheinberg and Barry Krost , Weisman received the Commitment to Life award at the Commitment to Life V event in 1991 .

literature

Randy Shilts : And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic , Penguin Verlag, October 1988, translated by Goldmann
Obituary. In: Los Angeles Times , July 23, 2009

Web links

Obituary by the Aids Project Los Angeles (APLA)
News item from Advocate.com magazine dated July 23, 2009

Individual evidence

^ MS Gottlieb, R Schroff, HM Schanker, JD Weisman, PT Fan, RA Wolf, A. Saxon: Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angeles . (PDF; 311 kB) In: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , August 30, 1996 / Vol. 45 / No. 34. Accessed on July 26, 2009. The original was reprinted by the CDC on April 4, 1996. June 1981.
^ MS Gottlieb, R Schroff, HM Schanker, JD Weisman, PT Fan, RA Wolf, A. Saxon: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency . In: New England Journal of Medicine , December 10, 1981, 305 (24), pp. 1425-1431, PMID 6272109 .

personal data
SURNAME	Weisman, Joel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Butzi Bienzle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American medical doctor, internal medicine doctor, and AIDS research pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Newark , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 2009
Place of death	Westwood, Los Angeles , California

[1] MS Gottlieb, R Schroff, HM Schanker, JD Weisman, PT Fan, RA Wolf, A. Saxon: Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angeles . (PDF; 311 kB) In: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , August 30, 1996 / Vol. 45 / No. 34. Accessed on July 26, 2009. The original was reprinted by the CDC on April 4, 1996. June 1981.

[2] MS Gottlieb, R Schroff, HM Schanker, JD Weisman, PT Fan, RA Wolf, A. Saxon: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency . In: New England Journal of Medicine , December 10, 1981, 305 (24), pp. 1425-1431, PMID 6272109 .