Levison, Charlotte Engel, 1911-2001

William Levison (born Wilhelm Samuel Levison), physician, born April 12, 1909 in Cologne, died 1961 in Newark. After attending the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne until 1927, he studied medicine in Freiburg im Breisgau, Cologne, and Munich. He passed the state medical examination in Cologne on December 20, 1932, and received his M.D two days later with the dissertation Komplementbestimmungen bei Herz- und Kreislaufkranken (Complementary Diagnosis of Heart and Circulatory Patients), published in Zeitschrift fuer die Gesamte Experimentelle Medizin (vol. 78. 1931). He spent his practical year in Heidelberg (bei Siebeck) and at the medical institutes of the University of Cologne. Since as a result of the changed political circumstances he was forbidden to practice medicine in Germany, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1934, attaining citizenship in 1940.

William Levison worked first as an assistant at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, then at the Newark Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, and thus continued the vocation of family doctor into the third generation. He published several medical articles. In November 1942 he was drafted and became lieutenant in the medical corps of the U.S. Army. First stationed in various parts of the United States, he was later sent to the research station of a hospital in Hawaii, where he became a captain. On November 19, 1941 he married Charlotte Engel. They had a daughter: Judith Eve (born January 30, 1950). By December 1950 he became a Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. In 1951 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Diabetes Association. With a group of physicians he founded a vacation camp for children with diabetes, Camp Nejeda. He died in 1961.

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