Joel Weisman
Joel Weisman ( born February 20, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey; † July 18, 2009 in Westwood, Los Angeles ) was a doctor of Internal Medicine and AIDS researchers.
Training
Weisman graduated in 1970 at the former Kansas City College of Osteopathy, now the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.
Publications
Together with Michael S. Gottlieb of UCLA Medical Center reported Joel Weismann in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a publication on 4 June 1981 on a cluster of a rare pneumonia caused by a otherwise innocuous germ. This publication is considered the first mention of the then-unknown immune deficiency disease AIDS. An extended publication appeared in December 1981 in The New England Journal of Medicine. The fact that AIDS is caused by a virus that was unknown at that time.
Work
Since 1983, Weisman involved in the construction of the AIDS Project Los Angeles ( APLA ). In co-founded by Gottlieb and Mathilde Krim Foundation The American Foundation for AIDS Research ( amfAR ) Weisman worked with the Board of Directors from 1988 to 1992 as Chairman. Together with other doctors treated Weisman in the Pacific Oaks Medical Group patients with HIV or AIDS. In his circle of friends lost Weisman et al also his lifelong partner Timothy Bogue by the disease. His speech on the Commitment to Life V event is considered the beginning of a national effort to combat AIDS by the U.S. government. At the Sherman Oaks Community Hospital Weisman built the first hospital ward, the Immune Suppressed Unit on AIDS patients in the United States. Weisman died in 2009 after a long illness from a heart condition in Westwood, Los Angeles. He is survived by spouse, daughter and granddaughter.
Honors
- Along with Bette Midler, Sidney Sheinberg and Barry Krost received Weisman 1991 Commitment to Life Award on the Commitment to Life V event.
Books about Joel Weisman
- Randy Shilts: And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, published by Penguin, October 1988, translated by Goldmann