Iago Galdston was a psychiatrist and promoter of expanding the public's knowledge about health.
Dr. Iago Galdston (1895—December 19, 1989) was born in Kishinev, Russia and trained at Fordham University and the Wagner-Jauregg Institute in Vienna. After working at the Union Health Center and the New York Tuberculosis Association he joined the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928. For 34 years, Dr. Galston's was its spokesman and promoter of public activities; after his retirement in 1962 he became director of resident training for Connecticut's Department of Mental Health. At age 78 he started practicing psychiatry full time until a few weeks before his death at 94.
Iago Galdston appears in the following:
Introduction to Miss Doe's talk on the Academy library on FM programme 11/15/51.
Thursday, November 08, 1951
The Biology of Antibiotics
Tuesday, January 10, 1950
Contents.- "The biology of antibiotics"
by Dr. Y. Galvston (n.d.).-"General education"
by Prof. Warren Bower (1-10-50)
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150174
Municipal archives id: LT755
Frontiers of Genetics
Thursday, November 10, 1949
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Dr. Iago Galdston, secretary for the Committee on Medical Information, New York Academy of Medicine is interviewed about an upcoming lecture titled "Frontiers in Genetics," part of a series of lectures ...
