3/28/1914-10/4/2007. Pathologist at TMC. Arizona Medical Board record: Gerd T. Schloss MD; license date: 4/16/1955; medical school: FRIED-WILHELMS UNIV MED FAC, BERLIN; graduation date: 01/07/1938; address: RR 8 Box 558, Tucson. Name also appears as “Gert.”
Excerpt from October 14, 2007 Arizona Daily Star obituary: Gerd lived in Berlin until he graduated from medical school at the University of Berlin in 1938. He was forced to flee Germany and found refuge in Switzerland where he worked as a medical researcher for the Ciba pharmaceutical firm. He met Helene (Leny) Falk in Basel, Switzerland in 1944 and married her on September 26, 1946. They immigrated to the US on June 2, 1947, where Gerd had a series of jobs as a pathologist including as a faculty member in the department of pathology at Yale University, finally settling in Tucson on June 2, 1954. He was the second pathologist in Tucson, serving as director of laboratories at Tucson Medical Center and as a professor of microbiology at The University of Arizona, where he taught and did cancer research until his retirement in 1979.
Excerpt from October 14, 2007 Arizona Daily Star obituary: Gerd lived in Berlin until he graduated from medical school at the University of Berlin in 1938. He was forced to flee Germany and found refuge in Switzerland where he worked as a medical researcher for the Ciba pharmaceutical firm. He met Helene (Leny) Falk in Basel, Switzerland in 1944 and married her on September 26, 1946. They immigrated to the US on June 2, 1947, where Gerd had a series of jobs as a pathologist including as a faculty member in the department of pathology at Yale University, finally settling in Tucson on June 2, 1954. He was the second pathologist in Tucson, serving as director of laboratories at Tucson Medical Center and as a professor of microbiology at The University of Arizona, where he taught and did cancer research until his retirement in 1979.
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AMH-PN3253
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Tucson