Peter Tishler

Peter Tishler ca. 2002

Peter Verveer Tishler, M.D. (born July 18, 1937) is a researcher in human genetics and orphan diseases, educator, and clinician especially in the areas of genetic diseases, including polycystic kidney disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Fabry disease, and the porphyrias.

Biography

Tishler was born on July 18, 1937 in New Jersey to Max Tishler and Elizabeth M. Verveer.[1][2][3]

Tishler attended public schools and Harvard College where he majored in biochemistry. He wrote his senior thesis on carboxypeptidase, in the lab of Dr. C.J. Fu at the Jimmy Fund, graduating cum laude in 1959.[4]

Tishler attended Yale School of Medicine and graduated in 1962.[5] While at Yale, Tishler began working with the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital from 1963 to 1977.[4]

William B. Castle, discoverer of intrinsic factor, introduced him to Sidney H. Ingbar with whom Tishler began work on the metabolic actions of thyroid hormone. Maxwell Finland contributed to Tishler’s scientific and clinical work.[6] Tishler’s interest in genetics arose from his laboratory research in the study of thyroid function in patients with phenylketonuria.

During the Vietnam War, Tishler worked as a Public Health Service officer at the National Institutes of Health. In the following years, he continued his basic laboratory work, but also was concerned with genetics and medicine in the terms of population and epidemiology. He was also involved in familial studies of hypertension at one of the first community health centers in the U.S., East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Inventors and Inventions. p. 1082. On June 17, 1934, he married Elizabeth M. Verveer, who had been a student in his freshman chemistry laboratory at Tufts. The couple had two sons, Peter Verveer Tishler (b. 1937), a physician and genetics researcher, and Carl Lewis Tishler ...
  2. ↑ Kristine M. Krapp (1998). Notable Twentieth Century Scientists. They had two sons during their marriage, Peter Verveer Tishler, who went on to become a noted physician specializing in the genetics associated with diseases, and Carl Lewis Tishler.
  3. ↑ "Max Tishler Is Dead. Pioneer in Making Of Cortisone Was 82". New York Times. March 20, 1989. Retrieved 2015-04-10. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth, of Middletown; two sons, Peter, of Boston and Carl, of Columbus, Ohio; and three grandchildren.
  4. 1 2 The Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital. p. 1188.
  5. ↑ In Quest of Panacea. 1987. Peter Tishler graduated medical school in 1962. ...
  6. ↑ Finland, Maxwell and Castle, William B., Eds. (1983) The Harvard Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital, Volume II. University of Virginia Press (for the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine).

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