Pinner, Max

Of the Desert Sanatorium. Mentioned in the 11/15/1932 and 2/13/1934 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Read papers on “Changes in Morphology in Blood in Certain Types of Blood Dyscrasia” and “History and Present Status of B.C.G. Vaccination.”

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1948; 136: 341: Max Pinner, Berkeley, Calif. ; born in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 28, 1891 ; Eberhard-Karls-Universität Medizinische Fakultät, Tübingen, Württemberg, Germany, 1920; became instructor in pathology and bacteriology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, later director of laboratories of the Maybury Sanatorium in Northville, Mich., and pathologist at the Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit ; director of laboratories and research at the Desert Sanatorium in Tucson, Ariz., from 1930 to 1935 ; diagnostic pathologist for the state tuberculosis hospitals of New York; from 1938 to 1946 on the staff of the Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York; affiliated with Montefiore County Sanatorium in Bedford Hills, N. Y. ; served as clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York; specialist certified by the American Board of Pathology ; member of the American Sanatorium Association, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the American Association for Pathologists and Bacteriologists ; fellow of the American College of Physicians ; in 1946 awarded the Trudeau Medal of the National Tuberculosis Association; served in the German Army during World War I ; author of "Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Adult"; editor of the American Review of Tuberculosis; died January 7, aged 57.