Announcements of seminar courses for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School

Portrait of Arpad Geyza Gerster, MD (1848-1923). Dr. Gerster was born in Hungary and received his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1872. He emigrated to the United States where he eventually became House Surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Gerster published The Rules of Aseptic and Antiseptic Surgery, the first book on antiseptic surgical methods in the United States, in 1888.

Signed portrait of Fred D. Weidman, MD (1881-1956). Dr. Weidman was a dermatologist, spending his career as a teacher and researcher in Philadelphia. In 1926-27, he designed an important survey and public health report on the treatment of ringworm and other fungal diseases in the United States and abroad.

Announcements of seminar courses for physicians, practitioners, and NYU faculty and staff, sponsored by the NYU Post-Graduate Medical School

Portrait of Paul Ferdinand Schilder, MD (1886-1940). Dr. Schilder was born in Vienna and received his MD from the Medical University of Vienna in 1909. A prominent Austrian psychiatrist, he emigrated to the United States in 1929. From 1930 to his death in 1940, he served as medical director of the psychiatric division of Bellevue Hospital and research professor of psychiatry at New York University College of Medicine.

Photograph of Marion Baldur Sulzberger, MD (1895-1984), seated, with a patient and three medical students. The image was published in the 1952-53 Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Medical School.

Dr. Sulzberger became director of the New York Skin and Cancer Unit in 1947. From 1949 to 1960, he served as Professor of Dermatology and chairman of the Department of Dermatology at New York University Medical School. Dr. Sulzberger was named professor emeritus in 1960.