Lorenz E. Zimmerman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lorenz E. Zimmerman

American university teacher (1920-2013)

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1920

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 16-Mar-2013

Profession: university teacher, pathologist, ophthalmologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Lorenz E. Zimmerman

  • Lorenz Eugene Zimmerman (15 November 1920, Washington, D.C.
  • – 16 March 2013, Towson, Maryland) was an American ophthalmologist and an ophthalmic pathologist. Zimmerman received his bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1943 and his M.D.
  • from the associated medical school in 1945.
  • After completing his residency in general pathology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he was commissioned in 1950 as commanding officer of the 8217th Mobile Medical Laboratory in Korea.
  • For his wartime service, he received the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.
  • In 1952 he was assigned to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, where he remained until his retirement in 2002 as emeritus chair of the Institute's department of ophthalmic pathology.
  • He was also an associate professor from 1954–1963 and from 1963 a full professor of ophthalmology at George Washington University.
  • From 1983 he was a professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Georgetown University. In the 1930s and 1940s, ophthalmic pathology was a favored hobby of prominent ophthalmologists, but Zimmerman developed an academic framework for ophthalmic pathology and established it as an important subspecialty of ophthalmology.
  • Zimmerman acquired a deep understanding in the clinical practice of ophthalmology, and through his study of diseased eye tissues and the art of clinicopathological correlative studies, provided answers from a general pathologist’s perspective for issues of ophthalmic practice.
  • ...
  • he developed new classifications of many ophthalmic entities including neoplasms, corneal dystrophies, inflammations, degenerations, congenital abnormalities, and other eye diseases.

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