Dr. Ira Kaplan has been named head of the division of the New York City Hospital Department, recently created to treat malignant diseases, especially cancer. Dr Kaplan’s appointment was announced by William Schroeder, Jr., Commissioner of Hospitals.
Dr. Kaplan was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1914. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Radium Society, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Radiology Society of North America, the New York Roentgen Ray Society, the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, and the New York County Medical Society. He is also an assistant director of radiology in the Department of Hospitals.
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