Hans Einstein

For Albert Einstein's son, the hydraulic engineer, see Hans Albert Einstein.

Hans E Einstein (born February 3, 1923) is the foremost authority on the lung disease Valley Fever.^{[citation needed]} He currently resides in Bakersfield, California, USA. He is related to Albert Einstein: Hans's grandfather and Albert were first cousins.

Biography

Einstein was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in Hamburg, Germany as Nazism gradually took hold. His parents were Quakers, but of Jewish origin. A year after Hitler took power in 1934, his mother moved him and his sister to the Netherlands, leaving his father behind. He finished high school at Eerde, a boarding school in the Netherlands at age 16 and moved to the United States as an exchange student. He attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. One of the first things he did upon arriving was look up his last name in the phone book. The only Einstein he found was a relative: Albert Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein. They became friends and was often invited over whenever Albert visited. He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1946 and did his internship at Paterson General Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. Following that, he became a medical officer in the United States Army. Following residencies in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases at the New York Veterans Hospitals, in 1951 he drove across the United States to Kern General Hospital in Bakersfield, California. After finishing his residency there, Einstein became the assistant medical director of the Kern County tuberculosis sanitarium in Keene. Once there, he realized that some patients had Valley Fever rather than tuberculosis. He later became the Medical Director at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital until his retirement in 2000. Despite "retirement" he continues to work, weekly treating patients at Kern Medical Center, teaching at San Joaquin Valley College, and much more.

He has five daughters. Recently they formed the Hans Einstein Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a medical student from Bakersfield, California on a need and academic basis.

Current appointments

Hospital appointments

• Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Los Angeles, CA (Since 1970, Medical Director and CEO 1978-1988)
• Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Bakersfield, CA (since 1960, Medical Director 1988-99)
• Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA (since 1953, Chief of Medical Service 1958-1961)
• Clinician, Tuberculosis Clinic, Kern County Health Department (since 1988)
• Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield, CA (since 1988)
• LAC/USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (since 1962)
• The Hospital of the Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, CA (since 1978)

Academic appointments

• Medical Director, Division of Repiratory Care, San Joaquin Valley College (since 1991)
• Professor, Clinical Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine (since 1975, Emeritus since 1999)

References

• Dr Hans Einstein

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