Abstract of Recording

Horace L. Hodes, MD (1907-1989) served as Director of the Pediatrics Department at The Mount Sinai Hospital from 1949-1976 and as Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 1965-1976. He is interviewed by Albert S. Lyons, MD, Archivist at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. In this interview, Dr. Hodes discusses his career; his research work; his military service during World War II as part of the Rockefeller University unit; the efforts at The Mount Sinai Hospital to create Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Hans Popper, MD, PhD, Gustave L. Levy, Chairman of the Mount Sinai Board of Trustees; and the Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai.

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Biographical Sketch

Horace L. Hodes, MD (1907-1989) served as Director of the Pediatrics Department at The Mount Sinai Hospital and as Herbert H. Lehman Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He was recruited to Mount Sinai from Baltimore, where he had been Pediatrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical Director of Sydenham Hospital, and taught at various medical schools. Dr. Hodes was an expert on pediatric bacteriology and virology and made many important discoveries, including the first isolation of viral diarrhea in humans. He was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics panel that testified before Congress on the efficacy of the Salk polio vaccine. In 1953, he established the Jack Martin Polio Respirator Center at Mount Sinai. He also helped establish the Bela Schick Pediatric Society and served on the executive committee of the Mount Sinai Physicians' Practice Association. Dr. Hodes served the American Pediatric Society as President from 1974 to 1975. He retired from clinical practice in 1976, becoming Director Emeritus of the Department of Pediatrics, but continued an active teaching and research career. He died in 1989.