Abraham Lilienfeld
| Abraham Lilienfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born | Abraham Morris Lilienfeld November 13, 1920 New York City, United States |
| Died | August 6, 1984 (aged 63) Baltimore, Maryland, United States Heart attack |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Epidemiology |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health |
| Known for | Expanding epidemiology to focus on chronic as well as infectious diseases |
| Influences | Alexander Langmuir |
| Notable awards | Ernest Lyman Stebbins medal from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, member of the Institute of Medicine |
| Spouse | Lorraine Zemil |
| Children | Three children, seven grandchildren |
Abraham Morris "Abe" Lilienfeld (November 13, 1920 – August 6, 1984) was an American epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Lilienfeld was born in New York City on November 13, 1920. His father, Joe Lilienfeld, came from a wealthy family in Galicia, Ukraine, and worked as a Galician rabbinical scholar. Joe and his wife had immigrated to the United States in 1914 to escape the draft, leaving their money (which was all in German marks) behind in Germany when they did so. He graduated from Erasmus High School, whereupon he enrolled at Johns Hopkins University, where he moved in with his brother, Sam, in 1938. In 1941, he received his A.B. from Johns Hopkins, after which he applied to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, but was told he would be rejected because he was Jewish. He then enrolled at Albany Medical College for a time before transferring to the University of Maryland's medical school. He received his M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1944, and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1949.
Lilienfeld joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health as a lecturer in 1950, and became an Assistant Professor of epidemiology there in 1952. From 1954 to 1958, he served on the faculty of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. During this time, he also founded, and served as the first chairman of, the Department of Statistics and Epidemiological Research at Roswell Park Memorial Institute. In 1958, he returned to Johns Hopkins, where he became the head of the Department of Chronic Diseases in 1961. In 1964, he was named the staff director of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke. In 1970, he resigned his position as the head of the department of chronic diseases at Johns Hopkins to become the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology there. In 1975, he resigned as chair of this department. He has been described as "instrumental" in the founding of the American College of Epidemiology in 1979.
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