Dr. E. David Friedman, Professor of Neurology and one-time head of the Department of Neurology at the New York University College of Medicine, died here last night after a brief illness. He was 68.
Dr. Friedman, who had taught at the college for 34 years, was associated with and headed a number of medical organizations and had been associated with the neurological department of a number of New York hospitals. A past president of the Park Avenue Synagogue, he had also been a member of the American Jewish Physicians Committee, During the last war he lectured at New York University’s School of Military Neuropsychiatry.
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