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Sam Switzer

1931 – 1967

American physician and medical researcher

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Lived 1931 – 1967 (aged 35–36). Sam Switzer was a teacher.

Sam Switzer (born 1931, died June 4, 1967, in the Bronx, N.Y.) was an American physician and medical researcher.

Education Switzer graduated magna cum laude in 1952 from the City College of New York, where he won the Pell Medal as the top student in his class. He went to medical school at the New York University School of Medicine and graduated in 1956.

Career Switzer did a medical residency at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, and in 1958 was appointed as a senior surgeon at the United States Public Health Service and Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, where he did population research on urinary tract infections, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease.

In 1960 he returned to the U.S., where he became an assistant professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an assistant attending physician at the adjacent Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, turning the focus of his research to lipid metabolism and mechanisms of liver disease.

He was also appointed as a career investigator at the New York City Health Research Council.

Publications

Death Along with his 7-year-old daughter Mallory, Switzer died following injuries sustained in an automobile crash on a rainy night. He was survived by his wife Phyllis and his son Brian, who were both seriously injured in the accident.

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Born
1931
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Died
1967
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Who was Sam Switzer?

American physician and medical researcher

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Sam Switzer was born in 1931.

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Sam Switzer died in 1967.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sam Switzer

· Wikidata: Q133818021

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