Boston University professor Lewis Weintraub received the 2011 Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence at Boston Medical Center for clinical and research work, leadership and education, according to a Feb. 1 press release.
Weintraub, a professor of medicine at BU School of Medicine, has spent his career researching hematology, according to the press release. The professor authored 78 papers and medical reviews on anemias and a variety of other blood-related topics.
Weintraub started out at BUSM as an associate professor and became a full-time professor and the chief of hematology at BMC in 1977, a position he held until 2003.
Ravin Davidoff, chief medical officer of BMC, presented the award to professor Jerome Klein in 2010 in commemoration of Klein’s 50 years of service to BUSM and BMC, said Gina DiGravio, BMC media relations manager. The award is presented annually to a physician that shares Klein’s level of excellence.
Davidoff said in the press release Weintraub has helped convey his interest in hematology in terms of diagnosis and clinical care to trainees.
“Dr. Weintraub is a clinical hematologist without peer,” Ravin said. “He has been an outstanding clinical teacher and great communicator of hematology knowledge to generations of trainees throughout a 39-year career at BUSM/BMC and our affiliated hospitals.”
Weintraub was selected among the 1,240 physicians at BMC, DiGravio said. BMC chiefs nominated physicians the top tier of physicians, and from these nominees, Weintraub was found most fitting of the award.
Prior to becoming a part of staff at BUSM, the Harvard Medical School graduate trained at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan and also at Mount Sinai Hospital. During the Vietnam War era, Weintraub worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and served as the Assistant Chief of Hematology. After, he worked at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Tufts Medical Center.
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