1932
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1954
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
1954
Serves as Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery in the US Army through 1958.
1958
Serves as a First Lieutenant within the Medical Service Corps in the US Army through 1960.
1958
Earns a Doctor of Medicine from Tulane Medical School; elected to Owl Club, the Tulane Medical School Leadership Society.
1959
Completes a rotating internship at The Mount Sinai Hospital in NY.
1959
Is a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at The Mount Sinai Hospital through 1964 and is chief resident from 1963 through 1964.
1960
Is Captain within the US Army through 1962.
1970
Is director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine through 1994.
1976
Serves as a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology for The City Hospital Center at Elmhurst.
1978
Is an attending obstetrician and gynecologist at The Mount Sinai Hospital and continues to serve in this role.
1981
Serves as vice chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science at The Mount Sinai Hospital through 2004.
1987
Is a charter member of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society.
1990
Serves as an editorial reviewer for the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer and continues to do so.
1999
Is a professor at the Derald H. Ruttenberg Cancer Center at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
2004
Is attending obstetrician and gynecologist and professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons through 2008.
2008
Is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and continues to serve in this role.
2016
Is named emeritus professor and professor of gynecology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
2020
Maintains membership with the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, which he cofounded.
2020
Maintains certification via the American Board of Obstetricians and the Gynecologists Subspecialty Board of Gynecologic Oncology.