Philip Lanzkowsky, MD, ScD, FRCP, DCH
Executive Director
Dr. Philip Lanzkowsky is Executive Director of the Schneider
Children's Hospital and Vice President, Children's Health Network,
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. He is Chairman of
the Department of Pediatrics, Director of the Pediatric Residency
Training Program and Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine.
Dr. Lanzkowsky obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at the University
of Cape Town in 1959. Following this he did postgraduate work
in Edinburgh, Scotland; St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in
London, England; Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and
the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 1960 he obtained
his Diploma in Child Health from the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of London and in 1961 became a member of the prestigious
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The Royal College of
Physicians of Edinburgh honored Dr. Lanzkowsky in 1973 by appointing
him as a Fellow of the College. In 1994 he received an honorary
Doctorate of Science from St. John's University in New York in
recognition of his notable contributions in the field of Pediatric
Medicine and to the children of the world.
In 1965 he was appointed Director of Pediatric Hematology at
the New York Hospital-Cornell University School of Medicine. He
occupied this position until 1969 when he was appointed Acting
Pediatrician-in-Chief of the New York Hospital and Associate Professor
of Pediatrics at Cornell University School of Medicine. In 1970
he assumed the position of Chairman of Pediatrics at the Long
Island Jewish Medical Center and became Professor of Pediatrics
at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.
In November 1984, at its opening, he became Chief-of-Staff of
the Schneider Children's Hospital.
Dr. Lanzkowsky was instrumental in the development, planning
and the formulation of the philosophy behind the establishment
of the Schneider Children's Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical
Center and was instrumental in its implementation.
Dr. Lanzkowsky is a member of numerous professional societies;
he has had many special appointments both in the United States
and abroad and has been invited as a lecturer and visiting professor
at numerous institutions and medical schools in this country,
South Africa, Japan, England, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, India,
Poland, Hungary, Spain and various other countries in Europe.
The author of five texts in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, author
of chapters in many standard textbooks, Dr. Lanzkowsky has in
excess of 270 scientific publications to his name and numerous
chapters in standard textbooks.
