Fred Rosner

Fred Rosner was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany. His parents were Sara (Feingold) and Sidney Rosner. At the age of three, along with his brother, he was sent on the last of the Kindertransports to the UK to escape the Nazis. After the end of World War II, Rosner immigrated to the USA and graduated from Yeshiva University. He then went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, earning his M.D. with the first graduating class in 1959. He became professor of medicine at the College, as well as at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Director of the Department of Medicine at Queens Hospital Center. Dr. Rosner is the Chairman of the Medical Ethics Committee of the State of New York. He has also been a visiting professor or lecturer in many countries around the world. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is board certified in hematology. Among his many awards are the American Medical Association's Isaac Hays, MD, and John Bell, MD, Award for Leadership in Ethics and Professionalism and the Lawrence D. Redway Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the Medical Society of New York. Dr. Rosner has published 29 books, 39 chapters in books, and nearly 800 scholarly articles. Topics include Jewish medical ethics and Jewish medical history, immunology, general medicine, and his specialty of hematology. He has also written extensively about the 12th century physician, astronomer, and philosopher Moses Maimonides.