Wladyslaw Wojciech Socha
Physician
Born Jul. 3, 1926, Paris, France; came to U.S., 1969; son of Tadeusz and Anna (Jaworowska); married Adela (Zacharko).
Education: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), 1952, Doctor of Medical Sciences (D.M.S.), 1959, Dr. habilitowany (Poland), 1963, N. Copemicus Medical Academy, Cracow (Poland).
Career: assistant, Department of Pathology, Institute of Oncology, Warsaw - Gliwice (Poland), 1951-60; lecturer, 1955-61, associate prof., 1961-65, Department of Forensic Medicine, director, Institute of Pediatrics, 1965-69, N. Copemicus Academy of Medicine; research prof., Department of Forensic Medicine, New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, New York City, 1969 -; visiting scientist and lecturer, College de France, Paris, 1971-72, 1978, 1981, 1984.
Author: 4 books, over 150 scientific articles dealing with general and oncological pathology, forensic pathology, immunogenetics, human blood group serology, transplantation immunology, comparative immunology of nonhuman primates, and molecular biology.
Member of: honorary member, Associazione Primatologica Italiana (Italy), Institut Pyreneen d'Etudes Anthropologique, Toulouse (France); International Society of Heart Transplantation; Academie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles - Lettres, Toulouse; American Society of Human Genetics; American Society of Primatologists; New York Academy of Sciences; Medicus - Polish - American Medical Society (director, 1969-73); Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); Kosciuszko Foundation.
Honors: annual awards, Polish Medical Society, 1960, Polish Surgeon's Association, 1962, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1966; research grants, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1976-82.
Served with: Polish Home Army - Armia Krajowa (A.K.), platoon leader, cadet - officer, 1942-45.
Affiliation: Republican. Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, French, English, German.
Office: New York University Medical Center, 550 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.